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A Twin-Sibling Study of Observed Parent-Adolescent Interactions.
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O'Connor, Thomas G.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
The mother, father, and adolescent siblings from 675 families were observed interacting in problem-solving sessions. Siblings were monozygotic twins, dyzygotic twins, or full siblings in nondivorced families and full, half, and unrelated siblings in stepfamilies. Results suggested a greater genetic component to adolescent behavior than to parent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Environmental Influences, Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy
Biological and Cultural Diversity: The Legacy of Darwin for Development.
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Scarr, Sandra – Child Development, 1993
Posits that an evolutionary perspective can unite the study of the typical development for and individual variation within a species and that environments within the normal range for a species are required for species-normal development. Individual differences in children reared in normal environments arise primarily from genetic variation and…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Definitions, Environment
Adolescent, Parent, and Observer Perceptions of Parenting: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Shared and Distinct Perceptions.
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Feinberg, Mark; Neiderhiser, Jenae; Howe, George; Hetherington, E. Mavis – Child Development, 2001
Examined low interrater agreement by decomposing common and unique variance among parent, adolescent, and observer reports of parental warmth and negativity into genetic and environmental factors. Model-fitting analyses findings generally supported predictions for warmth and negativity at Family and Individual levels. At the Social level, genetic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Environmental Influences, Heredity, Interrater Reliability
Human Behavioral Genetics, Scarr's Theory, and Her Views on Interventions: A Critical Review and Commentary on Their Implications for African American Children.
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Jackson, Jacquelyne Faye – Child Development, 1993
Key components of human behavioral genetics and Sandra Scarr's work of the past two decades are critically reviewed based on scholarship in animal neuropsychology and clinical and educational psychology. Scarr's opinion that interventions to enhance intellectual development are ineffectual for children from abuse- and neglect-free backgrounds is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Animal Behavior, Blacks, Children
The Average Expectable Environment Is Not Good Enough: A Response to Scarr.
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Baumrind, Diana – Child Development, 1993
Takes the position, contrary to that of Sandra Scarr, that the details of socialization patterns are crucial to an understanding of normal and deviant development. Research is cited to support the argument that better than adequate parenting optimizes the development of both normal and vulnerable children and that parents' belief in their own…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Family Environment
Parenting and Child Behavioral Adjustment in Early Childhood: A Quantitative Genetic Approach To Studying Family Processes.
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Deater-Deckard, Kirby – Child Development, 2000
Examined environmental and gene-environment processes linking parenting (affect, control, responsiveness) and preschoolers' behavioral adjustment difficulties (noncompliance, conduct problems). Found that estimates of shared environmental variance and mediation were greatest for observational data, and estimates of child genetic variance and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Compliance (Psychology)