Associations of socio-economic variables with fluid intelligence of twins in Khadar zone

Pages: 60-63
Reetu Devi (Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana)
Vijay Kumar (Asstt. Director (Farm Management), ADT/SNIATTE, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana)
Bimla Dhanda (Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana)

Fluid intelligence refers to abilities those are innate and independent of prior education or experience. Fluid
intelligence has been defined as the ability to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge. The fluid intelligence is general ability to think abstractly, reason, identifying patterns, solving problems and discerns relationships. The present study was conducted in four districts namely; Hisar Fatehabad, Rohtak and Jind of Haryana state with the purpose of availability of maximum numbers of twins in the required age group. A sample of 296 pairs of twins in the age group for the study. Fluid intelligence was taken as dependent variable and socio-economic variable was taken as independent variable. Fluid intelligence was measured with the help of Cattle Culture Fair Intelligence Test (Scale-I and II developed by (Cattell & Cattell, 1959). Scheduled was developed to assess the socio-economic variable of twins. Result revealed that fluid intelligence of twins was significantly associated with father’s education (2=10.26*), mother’s occupation (2=19.29*) and father’s occupation (2=10.44*) of twins but non significantly associated with age (2=0.73), gender (2=1.78), family type (2=1.07) family size (2=8.15), caste (2=8.04), mother’s education (2=6.49), family income (2=4.58), and number of sibling (2=3.37).