title: Social/emotional intelligence and midlife resilience in schoolboys with low tested intelligence.
abstract: Seventy-three inner-city boys with a mean IQ of 80 were followed prospectively from age 14 until age 65. Their adult adjustment was compared to a socioeconomically matched sample of 38 boys with a mean IQ of 115. Although childhood social disadvantage did not distinguish the groups with low and high IQs, half of the low-IQ men enjoyed incomes as high and had children as well-educated as did the high IQ men. These resilient low-IQ men were more likely to be generative, to use mature defenses, and to enjoy warm object relations than the high IQ group as a whole.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychiatry, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Vaillant
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001900:Boston; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014505:Urban Population