ABSTRACT
Of more interest, however, is to look at the relationship between the verbal reasoning scores obtained at eleven and the indices which we had devised to characterise child, mother or both at the age of seven. At the point at which the verbal reasoning scores had been collected for all our children (i.e. when those with the latest birthdates had reached eleven) we did not yet have field data obtained at eleven in a coded form, nor had we yet fully developed our indices for that age-stage. In as much as mothers' styles are consistent from one age-stage to the next - and in so far as we also expect the total situation at seven to bear some relation to the total situation at eleven - it seemed reasonable to make this kind of temporal jump.
