Family Environment Psychology and Intellectual Functioning : A Life-Span Perspective

by Grigorenko, Elena L.; Sternberg, Robert J.; Sternberg, Robert J.; Burchinal, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780805831849
• ISBN10: 0805831843
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

What is the impact of the family environment on us, particularly with regard to our intellectual functioning? Does the role of early family environment wear off, as some researchers have suggested, or does it maintain or possibly even become more important as we grow older? This book examines the interrelationship between family environment and intellectual functioning in a lifespan perspective. Covering a wide range of topics, it provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date examination of life-span family influences on various aspects of intellectual function. For cognitive, development/lifespan, and educational psychologists, and scholars studying the family and its influences, this volume will help: *students learn about family effects; *researchers update themselves in this active area of investigation; *therapists understand problems in intellectual functioning in their clients and in treating these clients successfully; and *educators gain a better grasp on how the students they teach are products not only of their genes and environments, in general, but of their family environments, in particular.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Family as a Context of Psychological Functioning	1	(22)
Alice S. Carter
Karla Klein Murdock
Arguing for the Concept of Developmental Niche	23	(26)
Elena L. Grigorenko
Family Capital and Cognitive Performance	49	(22)
Kevin Marjoribanks
The Confluence Model: An Academic ``Tragedy of the Commons?''	71	(26)
Joseph Lee Rodgers
Divorce and Children's Cognitive Ability	97	(22)
John Guidubaldi
Julie Duckworth
Maternal Employment, Child Care, and Cognitive Outcomes	119	(22)
Margaret R. Burchinal
Grace I. L. Caskie
Parental Beliefs, Parenting Style, and Children's Intellectual Development	141	(32)
Lynn Okagaki
Sources of Environmental Influence on Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood	173	(22)
Deborah Finkel
Nancy L. Pedersen
Family Functioning and Intellectual Functioning in Later Life	195	(28)
Colleen L. Johnson
Grandchildren as Moderator Variables in the Family, Social, Physiological, and Intellectual Development of Grandparents Who Are Raising Them	223	(20)
Glenda M. Ehrle
Degree of Embeddedness of Ecological Systems as a Measure of Ease of Adaptation to the Environment	243	(22)
Robert J. Sternberg
Elena L. Grigorenko
Author Index	265	(14)
Subject Index	279