Comparing the Intelligence of Boys and Girls on the Dimensions of Family Efficiency

Subject Areas : Adolescent health

Ali Rasouli Fashtami ¹ , Touraj hashemi Hashemi ² , Azar Kiamarsi ³ , Ozra Ghaffari ⁴

1 - Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran [e-mail]
2 - Corresponding author, full professor, Department of Psychology, Tabriz University, Iran, [e-mail]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran [e-mail]
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran [e-mail]

Received: 2023-05-12 Accepted : 2023-05-03 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: Girl and boy, Family, Raven's IQ test, student,

Abstract :

© 2020 The Author(s). This work is published by family and health as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction: Raven's Progressive Matrices Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test is one of the valid intelligence tests that is used to measure general intelligence. This research was conducted to compare the general intelligence of male and female students on the dimensions of family efficiency and on the basis of children's Raven intelligence. Methods: The research method was causal-comparative and the statistical population was all elementary school students in Rasht city in the academic year 2020-2021. The sample of the study was 1643 elementary students (808 boys and 835 girls), who were selected by cluster random sampling from two privileged and semi-privileged areas. In this study, the children's Raven color matrix test and the non-verbal part of the Stanford Binet version 5 test were used to collect data. Research data were analyzed by independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance. Results: The results showed that there was no significant difference between the intelligence of girls and boys in the first, second, third, fourth and sixth grades, but the difference in intelligence between girls and boys in the fifth grade was significant, with the superiority of boys. There was also a significant difference between the mean total score of intelligence of girls and boys in educational levels. In other words, there was a significant difference in the intelligence scores of the students in different grades, and as the grade increased, the age also increased, so did the intelligence. Conclusion: By examining the background of the research, it was found that social factors, especially the family, could have a great impact on intellectual functions.

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