IntelligencePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101754
Curtis S. Dunkel , Dimitri van der Linden , Tetsuya Kawamoto
{"title":"Maternal supportiveness is predictive of childhood general intelligence","authors":"Curtis S. Dunkel , Dimitri van der Linden , Tetsuya Kawamoto","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101754","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101754","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Data from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (<em>N</em> = 1075) were used to test the hypothesis that maternal supportiveness (measured at three waves from 14 to 36 months) is positively and prospectively associated with a child's general intelligence (measured at five waves from 14 months to 10 years). Bivariate correlations showed that maternal supportiveness was consistently and positively associated with a child's general intelligence. For example, maternal supportiveness as measured at 14 months was correlated with a child's general intelligence at age 10; <em>r</em> = 0.35. Results of autoregressive cross-lagged panel models showed maternal supportiveness directly predicted future general intelligence through age four and indirectly, via age four general intelligence, up to age 10. Additional analyses verified that the effect of maternal supportiveness was on general intelligence and not specific abilities. The results point to the importance of maternal supportiveness on general intelligence in the first decade of life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101754"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45529857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101739
Kirill G. Miroshnik , Boris Forthmann , Maciej Karwowski , Mathias Benedek
{"title":"The relationship of divergent thinking with broad retrieval ability and processing speed: A meta-analysis","authors":"Kirill G. Miroshnik , Boris Forthmann , Maciej Karwowski , Mathias Benedek","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101739","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101739","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The present study aimed to integrate evidence on the relationship among broad retrieval ability (Gr), processing speed (Gs), and divergent thinking (DT) with a three-level meta-analytic approach. The analysis was conducted on 560 effect sizes obtained from 47 studies with an overall sample of 10,391 participants. Results indicated moderate mean correlations for both the Gr–DT (</span><em>r</em> = 0.47, 95% CI: [0.38, 0.54]) and the Gs–DT relationship (<em>r</em> = 0.31, 95% CI: [0.20, 0.41]). Notably, the correlation between DT and Gr was significantly higher than between DT and Gs, and the former remained significant even after controlling for the Gr–Gs correlation (<em>r</em><span> = 0.35, 95% CI: [0.26, 0.44]). Moderation analyses revealed that the Gr–DT link was moderated by the modality of DT tests and type of DT indicator, whereas the Gs–DT link was moderated by the modality of DT tests and type of DT instruction. Overall, these findings support the claim on the essential role of broad retrieval ability and processing speed in creative idea production.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101739"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46787631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101738
Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo , Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros , Elizabeth Lucía Valeriano-Lorenzo , Juan Botella
{"title":"Intelligence and life expectancy in late adulthood: A meta-analysis","authors":"Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo , Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros , Elizabeth Lucía Valeriano-Lorenzo , Juan Botella","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101738","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In an aging society, it is crucial to understand why some people live long and others do not. There has been a proliferation of studies in recent years that highlight the importance of psycho-behavioural factors in the ways of aging, one of those psychological components is intelligence. In this meta-analysis, the association between intelligence and life expectancy in late adulthood is analysed through the Hazard Ratio (HR). Our objectives are: (i) to update Calvin's meta-analysis, especially the estimate of the association between survival and intelligence; and (ii) to evaluate the role of some moderators, especially the age of the participants, to explore intelligence–mortality throughout adulthood and old age. The results show a positive relationship between intelligence and survival (HR<sub>•</sub>: 0.79; 95% CI: 0.81–0.76). This association is significantly moderated by the years of follow-up, the effect size being smaller the more years elapse between the intelligence assessment and the recording of the outcome. Intelligence is a protective factor to reach middle-high age, but from then on survival depends less and less on intelligence and more on other factors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101738"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49373951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101756
Nikita Kolachev , Galina Kovaleva
{"title":"General intelligence in middle school students from different Russian regions: Results of PISA-like tests","authors":"Nikita Kolachev , Galina Kovaleva","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101756","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study is aimed at investigating the contribution of the general intelligence factor if six PISA domains (reading, mathematical, scientific, financial literacies, global competence, and creative thinking) are combined in one measurement instrument. For achieving our goal, items based on the PISA frameworks are developed, students in grades 5–8 from three different Russian regions are assessed, and three IRT models (unidimensional, multidimensional, and bifactor) are applied to process the data. In addition, the correlations from the multidimensional model are estimated to examine the degree of cognitive specificity and mixture modeling is implemented to investigate ability differentiation across grades. Statistical analysis reveals that the bifactor model comprising one general and six specific factors, has a better fit in each grade. Based on this model, we compute the variance explained by the general factor, with the estimates varying between 60% and 70%. In general, the pure variance explained by specific factors does not exceed 10%. The correlations are above 0.40 in each grade and the averaged associations tend to increase from 6th to 8th grade, although they are smaller in years 6 and 7 compared to year 5. The general ability differentiation effect is observed in grades 6 to 8 and is not present in grade 5. Specific ability differentiation is more pronounced in reading literacy, especially in grade 5 to 7. The results obtained are discussed from the perspective of the ability and developmental differentiation/dedifferentiation problem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101756"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47614191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2022.101706
Kimmo Sorjonen , Michael Ingre , Gustav Nilsonne , Bo Melin
{"title":"Further arguments that ability tilt correlations are spurious: A reply to Coyle (2022)","authors":"Kimmo Sorjonen , Michael Ingre , Gustav Nilsonne , Bo Melin","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2022.101706","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2022.101706","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ability tilt refers to a within-individual difference between two abilities, e.g. a difference between math and verbal ability. Coyle and colleagues have demonstrated correlations between ability tilts and measures of the constituent abilities. We have previously pointed out that such measures may be spurious as the tilt variable is dependent on the constituent abilities. We have further shown that reported tilt associations are inconsistent with simulations including non-spurious tilt-effects, and concluded that tilt-correlations demonstrated by Coyle and colleagues are spurious. In a recent paper, Coyle responded with a series of arguments, including that the validity of tilt correlations is supported by their agreement with theoretical predictions, and that the analyses we used in our previous critique (regression effects) differ from tilt-correlations. Here, we advance the discussion by responding to the arguments put forward by Coyle. We show that the difference between regression effects and correlations is not material to the validity of our argument. Furthermore, we discuss the relation of tilt correlations to theory, and show that many empirical tilt-correlations, e.g. between the birth rate – death rate difference and fertility in US states, can be observed although such correlations can hardly be explained by differential investment theories. Therefore, we maintain that tilt correlations are spurious and that they offer little support for theories concerning the development of intelligence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101706"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42936370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101736
Cesare Cornoldi , David Giofrè , Enrico Toffalini
{"title":"Cognitive characteristics of intellectually gifted children with a diagnosis of ADHD","authors":"Cesare Cornoldi , David Giofrè , Enrico Toffalini","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101736","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Some children may be intellectually gifted, and yet experience behavioral and academic difficulties. We examined 82 twice exceptional children (2e-ADHD), having an excellent General Ability Index (GAI) derived from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (GAI ≥ 125), and a diagnosis of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). They accounted for 8.8% of a large sample of children with ADHD, which is twice as high as the proportion of intellectually gifted children in a typical population. This over-representation does not reflect a misdiagnosis of ADHD, as these children showed the typical features predicted on the grounds of data regarding the ADHD sample, including lower scores in working memory and processing speed measures, combined with the inclusion criteria for giftedness. Based on information concerning intellectually gifted children with either a Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) or typical development, we observed that these characteristics of intelligence are similar to those seen in SLD, but not in typical development, irrespective of whether 2e-ADHD children had a comorbid SLD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101736"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44652753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101730
Dominique A. Eichelberger , Fabio Sticca , Dinah R. Kübler , Tanja H. Kakebeeke , Jon A. Caflisch , Oskar G. Jenni , Flavia M. Wehrle
{"title":"Stability of mental abilities and physical growth from 6 months to 65 years: Findings from the Zurich Longitudinal Studies","authors":"Dominique A. Eichelberger , Fabio Sticca , Dinah R. Kübler , Tanja H. Kakebeeke , Jon A. Caflisch , Oskar G. Jenni , Flavia M. Wehrle","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mental abilities and physical growth are important determinants of health across the lifespan. Here, the stability of these traits was assessed from 6 months to 65 years of age to investigate periods of stability and malleability. Mental abilities, height, and weight were assessed at 11 time-points in participants of the Zurich Longitudinal Studies. Individuals with more than three missing data points per trait across the 11 assessment time-points (i.e., more than approx. 25% missing data) were excluded from further analyses (final <em>N</em> = 281). Bivariate cross-time correlations showed that the stability of mental abilities was low in infancy and gradually increased. The stability of growth measures was uniform across development, with height being highly stable and weight moderately so. When a latent model was used, the overall stability of mental abilities approached that of weight. The findings indicate that stability and malleability across development differ between mental abilities and growth measures. This requires consideration in interventions targeting these traits as facilitators for improving health outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101730"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45828356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101731
David Becker, S. Bakhiet, A. Alshahomee, Abdelbasit Gadour, Fadil Elmenfi, Y. Essa, E. Dutton
{"title":"Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective","authors":"David Becker, S. Bakhiet, A. Alshahomee, Abdelbasit Gadour, Fadil Elmenfi, Y. Essa, E. Dutton","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54477590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101720
Marco Koch , Nicolas Becker , Samuel Greiff
{"title":"What lies beneath the structure of intelligence? Overview of the special issue on the processes underlying intelligence","authors":"Marco Koch , Nicolas Becker , Samuel Greiff","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101720","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101720"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45331643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntelligencePub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2023.101731
David Becker , Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet , Alsedig Abdalgadr Alshahomee , Abdelbasit Gadour , Fadil Elmenfi , Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa , Edward Dutton
{"title":"Opinions on intelligence: An Arab perspective","authors":"David Becker , Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet , Alsedig Abdalgadr Alshahomee , Abdelbasit Gadour , Fadil Elmenfi , Yossry Ahmed Sayed Essa , Edward Dutton","doi":"10.1016/j.intell.2023.101731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101731","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The issue of cultural differences in how the concept of intelligence is understood has long been debated. But do such differences really exist and, if so, to what extent do they exist and between which cultures are they the most pronounced? To better understand this, we translated a survey from <span>Warne and Burton (2020)</span> on beliefs about intelligence into Arabic, distributed it among psychology and non-psychology students and lecturers at universities within the Arab world, and compared our results with those from the US given by Warne and Burton, and with the current state of research. The survey consisted of 83 items about theories regarding the meaning and testing of intelligence. From our sample of up to 327 Arabic-speaking participants, we found that replies are overall similar to those from the US (<em>r</em> = .59; <em>N</em><sub>items</sub> = 63), while both samples showed hardly any congruence with the current state of research. Agreements between the Arab and US-sample are mostly to be found on questions in which abilities are seen as important components of intelligence, while Arabs question the predictive validity of IQ test scores for life success much more than do their Western counterparts. Based on our results, we conclude that there is little evidence for the existence of cultural bias in points of view about intelligence research and that the concept of cultural non-transferability – or “cultural bias” – must be examined more critically.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":13862,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101731"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49720123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}