TY - JOUR

T1 - All in the family

T2 - Is creative writing familial and heritable?

AU - Tan, Mei

AU - Grigorenko, Elena L.

N1 - Funding Information: This data collection was funded by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Studies . The authors are grateful to the research team in Russia for their invaluable efforts in data collection and data entry.

PY - 2013/12

Y1 - 2013/12

N2 - The etiology of creative writing has been overlooked thus far in studies of skill acquisition. Here we attempt to make a start by examining the familiality and heritability of indicators of creative writing in a sample of 511 Russian-speaking children, and their 489 mothers and 326 fathers. The contributions of cognitive ability (fluid and crystallized intelligence) and family environment were also taken into account. Results show modest but statistically significant familiality and heritability of creative writing in this sample, even when other cognitive and environmental factors are added to the model.

AB - The etiology of creative writing has been overlooked thus far in studies of skill acquisition. Here we attempt to make a start by examining the familiality and heritability of indicators of creative writing in a sample of 511 Russian-speaking children, and their 489 mothers and 326 fathers. The contributions of cognitive ability (fluid and crystallized intelligence) and family environment were also taken into account. Results show modest but statistically significant familiality and heritability of creative writing in this sample, even when other cognitive and environmental factors are added to the model.

KW - Creative writing

KW - Genetic familiality

KW - Genetic heritability

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U2 - 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.09.002

DO - 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.09.002

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84890161724

VL - 28

SP - 177

EP - 180

JO - Learning and Individual Differences

JF - Learning and Individual Differences

SN - 1041-6080

ER -