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Educational attainment and social class in adoptees: genetic and environmental contributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

T. W. Teasdale  and
T. I. A. Sørensen
T. W. Teasdale
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychology, Copenhagen City Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Lund, Sweden
T. I. A. Sørensen
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Copenhagen City Hospital, Denmark
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Summary

The number of years of schooling and adult social class of 1417 adoptees are found to correlate with the social class of both their biological and adoptive fathers. For female adoptees the effect of both paternal social class values upon own social class appears to be mediated through the influence of the former upon years of schooling. For male adoptees, some residual direct correlations of paternal social class with offspring's social class, independent of years of schooling in the adoptee, are observed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1983 , pp. 509 - 518
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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