Relating demographers' measures of various population characteristics (size, growth/decline, density, age/sex structures, migration, et cetera) to measures of well-being recently developed within the social indicators movement promises to provide new knowledge about the linkage of population and well-being that can enhance decision making about important population issues.
In this paper however the focus is entirely on one set of such factors those associated with changing family patterns. I shall try to show generally that variations in aggregate intelligence scores are closely associated with variations in patterns of family configuration and that these aggregate family factors are deeply implicated in the declining SAT scores as a special case of a general phenomenon that manifests itself also in a variety of national ethnic regional racial and sex differences in intellectual test performance. For the purpose of this argument I will first summarize a recent theoretical analysis that specifies the conditions under which family configuration may foster or impede intellectual growth. I will then examine some relevant empirical findings and finally return to the special case of the SATs. (excerpt)
Summary ::: Although depression has been associated to worst bone physical properties in adulthood, this study showed that depressive symptoms were not significantly associated to bone mineral density measured at the forearm during adolescence.