A significant negative correlation (r = -0.26) is found between maternal IQ measured by the Raven's Matrices and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women. Statistical adjustments for schooling, age, religion, number of marriages, age at first reproduction, and birth spacing did not remove the correlation. Indeed, maternal schooling had no association with child mortality after controlling for IQ. We suggest that in addition to cognitively mediated self-management, an explanation for the relationship may lie in a cross-species life-history theory in which IQ scores are linked to brain size and a robust constitution.
TY - JOUR
AU - Čvorović, Jelena
AU - Rushton, J. Philippe
AU - Tenjović, Lazar
PY - 2008
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/800
AB - A significant negative correlation (r = -0.26) is found between maternal IQ measured by the Raven's Matrices and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women. Statistical adjustments for schooling, age, religion, number of marriages, age at first reproduction, and birth spacing did not remove the correlation. Indeed, maternal schooling had no association with child mortality after controlling for IQ. We suggest that in addition to cognitively mediated self-management, an explanation for the relationship may lie in a cross-species life-history theory in which IQ scores are linked to brain size and a robust constitution.
PB - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
T2 - Personality and Individual Differences
T1 - Maternal IQ and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women
EP - 1609
IS - 7
SP - 1604
VL - 44
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.019
ER -
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abstract = "A significant negative correlation (r = -0.26) is found between maternal IQ measured by the Raven's Matrices and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women. Statistical adjustments for schooling, age, religion, number of marriages, age at first reproduction, and birth spacing did not remove the correlation. Indeed, maternal schooling had no association with child mortality after controlling for IQ. We suggest that in addition to cognitively mediated self-management, an explanation for the relationship may lie in a cross-species life-history theory in which IQ scores are linked to brain size and a robust constitution.",
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journal = "Personality and Individual Differences",
title = "Maternal IQ and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women",
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Čvorović, J., Rushton, J. P.,& Tenjović, L.. (2008). Maternal IQ and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women. in Personality and Individual Differences
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 44(7), 1604-1609.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.019
Čvorović J, Rushton JP, Tenjović L. Maternal IQ and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women. in Personality and Individual Differences. 2008;44(7):1604-1609.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.019 .
Čvorović, Jelena, Rushton, J. Philippe, Tenjović, Lazar, "Maternal IQ and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women" in Personality and Individual Differences, 44, no. 7 (2008):1604-1609,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.019 . .
