Table 1.

Relationship between childhood psychological problems and adult occupational status and educational achievement adjusting for intelligence

	Result at age 34 y, B(SE)t
Variable	Occupational status*	Highest academic qualification†
Childhood emotional maladjustment	−0.696 (0.079) −8.87‡	−0.231 (0.021) −11.05‡
Inclusive of childhood intelligence§	−0.331 (0.078) −4.24‡	−0.077 (0.02) −3.9‡

Variables included in the analysis but not displayed in the model are child sex and father's social status when the child was born.

*Occupational status was specified using the 17 category National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification (NS-SEC) classification system, coded here with high scores indicating high occupational status.

^†Academic qualifications ranged from 0, representing none, to 5, representing higher degree/postgraduate certificate in education.

^‡P < 0.001.

^§Total of matrices, recall of digits, word definitions, and word similarities scores.