TITLE:
Spousal concordance in academic achievements and IQ: A principal component analysis
AUTHORS:
Yue Pan, Ke-Sheng Wang
KEYWORDS:
Academic Achievements; IQ; Spousal Concordance; Principal Component Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.1 No.2,
July
12,
2011
ABSTRACT: Assortative mating, the tendency for mate selection to occur on the basis of similar traits plays an essential role in understanding the genetic variation on academic achievements and intelligence (IQ), it is also an important mechanism explaining spousal concordance. We used a subset of The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism sample to study the mating patterns in 84 pairs of spouses from Caucasian families with their academic achievements (reading, spelling, arithmetic, vocabulary and comprehension) and IQ (verbal IQ, performance IQ and full scale IQ). Simple correlation analysis showed that 6 of these 8 traits revealed evidence of spousal correlation (P