Genetic vulnerability interacts with parenting and early care and education to predict increasing externalizing behavior
Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The current study examined interactions among genetic influences and children’s early environments on the development of externalizing behaviors from 18 months to 6 years of age. Participants included 233 families linked through adoption (birth parents and adoptive families). Genetic influences were assessed by birth parent temperamental regulation. Early environments included both family (overreactive parenting) and out-of-home factors (center-based Early Care and Education; ECE). Overreactive parenting predicted more child externalizing behaviors. Attending center-based ECE was associated with increasing externalizing behaviors only for children with genetic liability for dysregulation. Additionally, children who were at risk for externalizing behaviors due to both genetic variability and exposure to center-based ECE were more sensitive to the effects of overreactive parenting on externalizing behavior than other children.
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Family and Peer Processes and G-E Interplay in Middle School: An Adoption Study, The Early Growth and Development Study: Family Process, Genes and School Entry, Gene-Environment Interplay and Development of Psychiatric Symptoms in Children, Genes, Prenatal Drug Exposure, and the Postnatal Environment: An Adoption Study
OpenAlex ID: W2007537842