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Sibling and family environment correlates of children's achievement: ethnic group differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Kevin Marjoribanks
Kevin Marjoribanks
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide, Australia
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Summary

Regression surface analysis was used to examine relationships between sibling variables and measures of cognitive performance at different levels of family environment measures, for children from different Australian ethnic groups. Included in the sample were 460 Anglo-Australian, 170 Greek, and 120 Southern Italian families. Each family had an 11-year-old child and interviews with parents related to those children. There were no associations between the sibling variables and intellectual ability scores. For word-test scores the findings provided some tentative support for an admixture explanation of sibling correlates of children's cognitive performance. Generally, the study revealed that at different levels of family environment dimensions, sibling variables had few associations with various cognitive measures for children from different ethnic groups.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 99 - 107
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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