Paper Title
IQ stability: The relation between child and young adult intelligence test scores in low-birthweight samples
Keywords
- IQ Stability
- Low-Birthweight Samples
- Childhood Intelligence
- Adult Intelligence
- Intelligence Test Scores
- WISC
- WAIS
- BPP
- Intellectual Development
- Verbal IQ
- Performance IQ
- Full-Scale IQ
- Retest Correlations
- Cognitive Development
- Danish Military Draft Board Test
- Longitudinal Study
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Publication Info
Volume: 44 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 395-398
Published On
July, 2003
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Abstract
The stability of IQ from childhood to adulthood in low-birthweight subjects was measured in two independent samples with follow-up intervals of approximately 14 and 9.5 years. In both samples, intelligence was assessed with the WISC at a mean age of 9.5. Twenty-six subjects were retested with the WAIS at a mean age of 23.5, and 78 subjects with the BPP (the Danish Military Draft Board Intelligence Test) at the age of 19.1. Both samples obtained childhood and adult test scores below the expected means. For the Wechsler Verbal, Performance and Full-Scale IQs, the stability quotients were 0.86, 0.86, and 0.89 in the WAIS sample, and the retest correlations for the three IQs with the BPP score were 0.66, 0.65, and 0.74. Thus, the majority of children showed stable patterns of intellectual development from middle childhood to young adulthood.
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