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November 18, 2025The Journal of General Psychology

Parental social status, parent–child relationship quality, and maternal trait emotional stability as predictors of children’s cognitive ability at age 7 years: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

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HCHelen ChengAFAdrian Furnham

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Correlational analysis finds parental social status and relationship quality impact cognitive ability in children, indicating strong social influences.

Key Points

  • Assess the influence of parental social status and parent-child relationship quality on children's cognitive ability.
  • Analyzed longitudinal data from 10,663 children in the Millennium Cohort Study.
  • Utilized correlational analyses to identify associations with cognitive ability.
  • Employed structural equation modeling to evaluate direct and mediating effects.
  • Parental social status significantly influenced children's cognitive ability (path coefficient = 0.49, p < 0.001).
  • Parent-child relationship quality had modest direct effects on cognitive ability (path coefficient = 0.10, p < 0.001).
  • Maternal trait emotional stability also had a significant effect (path coefficient = 0.04, p < 0.05), accounting for 28% of variance.

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Cheng et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924fef4c0ce034ddc351db7https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2025.2587882
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