Influence of social class on the correlation of stature of adult children with that of their mothers and fathers

Bibliographic Data

ID24078093
AuthorsGabriel W Lasker (Wayne State University), C G Nicholas Mascie‐taylor (0000-0003-1009-0890, University of Cambridge), C G N Mascie-Taylor
Year1996
Volume28
Issue1
Pages117-122
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Biosocial Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9320 • E-ISSN: 1469-7599
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021932000022136
PMID8690739
OpenAlexW2138412683
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited6

Studies of parent–child correlations in stature require data which can be viewed as random samples of some general population and which are large enough to allow partition of the variable and evaluation of non-genetic and genetic influences. In a sample of 4336 individuals drawn from a cohort of all persons born in England, Scotland and Wales in 1 week in 1958, the correlation of statures of the males with their fathers, the females with their fathers, the males with their mothers and the females with their mothers were 0·36, 0·43 and 0·41 and 0·47 respectively at age 16 of the offspring and 0·41, 0·41, 0·47 and 0·46 respectively at age 23. Allowance for the occupational social class of the fathers lowers the correlations, but in no case by more than 5%. Allowance for the occupational class achieved by the offspring by age 23 has little effect on the correlations.

Correlation · Developmental psychology · Geography · Political science · Social class · Sociology · Demography · Human Health and Disease · Mathematics · Psychology