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Birth and Adoptive Parent Antisocial Behavior and Parenting: A Study of Evocative Gene–Environment Correlation

Year: 2016

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Abstract: Negative parenting is shaped by the genetically influenced characteristics of children (via evocative rGE) and by parental antisocial behavior; however, it is unclear how these factors jointly impact parenting. This study examined the effects of birth parent and adoptive parent antisocial behavior on negative parenting. Participants included 546 families within a prospective adoption study. Adoptive parent antisocial behavior emerged as a small but significant predictor of negative parenting at 18 months and of change in parenting from 18 to 27 months. Birth parent antisocial behavior predicted change in adoptive father's (but not mother's) parenting over time. These findings highlight the role of parent characteristics and suggest that evocative rGE effects on parenting may be small in magnitude in early childhood.

Source: Child Development

DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12619

Authors: Ashlea M Klahr, S Alexandra Burt, Leslie D Leve, Daniel S Shaw, Jody M Ganiban, David Reiss, Jenae M Neiderhiser

Institutions: Michigan State University, University of Oregon, University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University, Yale University, Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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, Gene-Environment interplay and childhood obesity: An Adoption study., Genes, Prenatal Drug Exposure, and the Postnatal Environment: An Adoption Study

OpenAlex ID: W2526514269

FWCI: 2.675

Cites: 56

Cited by: 21

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