title: To what extent does g impact on conceptual, practical and social adaptive functioning in clinically referred children?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Previous analyses have found variable results when evaluating the size of the association between intellectual ability and adaptive functioning in individuals with impaired function.
  
  
  METHODS
  We assessed the association between intellectual ability measured as a latent higher-order g and three different areas of adaptive functioning in a sample of clinically referred individuals with low IQ.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regressing g on conceptual, practical and social adaptive functioning yielded standardised regression coefficients of 0.65, 0.60 and 0.51 respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results suggests that even at low levels of ability, increments in g still have important consequences for human functioning. Further, the influence of g may not be equally strong across different areas of human functioning.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McKenzie
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment
keywords: behavioural measurement methods; intellectual disability; learning disability; methodology in research