Fluid intelligence in refugee children. A cross-sectional study of potential risk and resilience factors among Syrian refugee children and their parents

Gustaf Gredebäck, Jonathan Hall and Marcus Lindskog

Intelligence, 2022, vol. 94, issue C

Abstract: We assess fluid intelligence of 6–18 year-old children growing up in families that have fled from Syria and reside in Turkish communities (100 families, 394 individuals). We demonstrate that fluid intelligence of refugee children is related to maternal fluid intelligence and to the amount of time mothers spend reading to their child. These factors stood out in the analysis even when controlling for a large range of other factors such as demographics, parental mental health, parental fluid intelligence, home environment, and a large array of potential enrichment factors.

Keywords: Intelligence; Child development; War; Refugee; Book reading; Trauma (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2022.101684

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