TY - JOUR
T1 - Intelligence and family marital structure
T2 - The case of adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families among bedouin arabs in israel
AU - Elbedour, Salman
AU - Bart, William M.
AU - Hektner, Joel
PY - 2003/2/1
Y1 - 2003/2/1
N2 - The levels of intelligence among Bedouin Arab adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families living in the Negev region of Israel were examined. A shortened version of the Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) test (S. Elbedour, T. J. Bouchard, & Y. Hur, 1997; J. Raven, J. C. Raven, & J. H. Court, 1998) was used to assess intelligence. There were no significant test score differences between adolescents from monogamous families and adolescents from polygamous families. In addition, participants with 2 mothers tended to have lower RPM scores than those with 3 or 4 mothers, and participants with related parents tended to have lower RPM scores than participants with unrelated parents. One major finding of this study is that polygamous family marital structures tended not to have deleterious effects on the Bedouin Arab adolescents' RPM test scores.
AB - The levels of intelligence among Bedouin Arab adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families living in the Negev region of Israel were examined. A shortened version of the Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM) test (S. Elbedour, T. J. Bouchard, & Y. Hur, 1997; J. Raven, J. C. Raven, & J. H. Court, 1998) was used to assess intelligence. There were no significant test score differences between adolescents from monogamous families and adolescents from polygamous families. In addition, participants with 2 mothers tended to have lower RPM scores than those with 3 or 4 mothers, and participants with related parents tended to have lower RPM scores than participants with unrelated parents. One major finding of this study is that polygamous family marital structures tended not to have deleterious effects on the Bedouin Arab adolescents' RPM test scores.
KW - Bedouin Arab
KW - Intelligence
KW - Polygamy
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U2 - 10.1080/00224540309598433
DO - 10.1080/00224540309598433
M3 - Article
C2 - 12617349
AN - SCOPUS:0037313873
VL - 143
SP - 95
EP - 110
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
SN - 0022-4545
IS - 1
ER -