Citation

Beaver KM, Schwartz JA, Connolly EJ, Said Al-Ghamdi M, Kobeisy AN, Barnes JC, Boutwell BB. Death Stud. 2016; 40(5): 298-304.

Affiliation

g Department of Epidemiology , Saint Louis University , St. Louis , MO.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2015.1137994

PMID

26765521

Abstract

The current study examined whether adolescent IQ predicted risk for mortality by the age of 32. Analyses of data from the Add Health revealed that IQ was related to mortality risk, such that respondents with relatively lower IQs were significantly more likely to experience early life mortality when compared with respondents with comparatively higher IQs. This association remained statistically significant even after controlling for a host of covariates such as race, gender, involvement in violent behaviors, levels of self-control, and poverty. The average IQ of deceased respondents was approximately 95 while the average IQ of living respondents was about 100.

Language: en