Inteligencia: Diferencias de género y relaciones con factores psicomotrices, conductuales y emocionales en ni？os de 5 a？os

the study had two goals: (1) to explore gender differences in intelligence during early infancy; and (2) to analyze the relation between intelligence (verbal, nonverbal, global) and self-concept, psychomotricity, and behavioral and emotional variables. the study of the relations between intelligence and these variables is proposed in order to confirm that at early ages, such developmental areas are strongly interrelated, and this will underline the relevance of carrying out integral educational programs in preschool children. in this study, the cognitive definition of intelligence postulated by kaufman and kaufman (1997) was adopted. on the basis of the convergence of various cognitive models and in accordance with the contributions of neurology and cognitive psychology, these authors, conceive intelligence in terms of the individual style of information processing. to a great extent, they consider intelligence to be a question of problem-solving capacities and of the effectiveness of individual information-processing skills. they integrate into the concept of intelligence the theory of fluid intelligence (nonverbal skills and the capacity to solve new problems based on the person's aptitude to perceive relations and complete analogies, skills that are not much affected by culture or learning) and of crystallized intelligence (verbal skills related to academic learning that are supported by knowledge of words and by the formation of verbal concepts, skills that depend to agreat extent on formal schooling and cultural experiences). taking into account the results of previous studies, the investigation proposes five hypotheses: (1) at the age of 5 years, no significant differences in intelligence will be found between boys and girls; (2) intelligence correlates positively with self-concept; (3) intelligence will have significant positive relations with psychomotor development; (4) intelligence will be negatively associated with indicators of emotional stability, and (