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Pathways Linking Childhood Trauma to Rural, Unmarried, African American Father Involvement through Oxytocin Receptor Gene Methylation
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Brown, Geoffrey L.; Kogan, Steven M.; Cho, Junhan – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Father involvement contributes uniquely to children's developmental outcomes. The antecedents of father involvement among unmarried, African American fathers from rural areas, however, have been largely overlooked. The present study tested a conceptual model linking retrospective reports of childhood trauma and early adulthood social instability…
Descriptors: African Americans, Fathers, Trauma, Child Development
Pathways to Childhood Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Social, Cognitive, and Genetic Risk Factors
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Lau, Jennifer Y. F.; Rijsdijk, Fruhling; Gregory, Alice M.; McGuffin, Peter; Eley, Thalia C. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Childhood depressive conditions have been explored from multiple theoretical approaches but with few empirical attempts to address the interrelationships among these different domains and their combined effects. In the present study, the authors examined different pathways through which social, cognitive, and genetic risk factors may be expressed…
Descriptors: Risk, Children, Genetics, Path Analysis
Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Relationships between Family Connectedness, School Connectedness, and Adolescent Depressed Mood: Sex Differences.
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Jacobson, Kristen C.; Rowe, David C. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Investigated genetic and environmental contributions to relationship between family and school environment and depressed mood; also potential sex differences in genetic and environment contributions to variation in and covariation between family connectedness, school connectedness, and depressed mood. Subjects were 2,302 adolescent sibling pairs.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Educational Environment, Family Environment
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Maternal and Sibling Interaction in Middle Childhood: A Sibling Adoption Study.
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Rende, Richard D.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Triads composed of a mother and two children from either a nonadoptive or an adoptive family were observed in play settings in the home. Genetic factors were found to influence differences in sibling interactions and maternal interactions with siblings. Environmental factors also had an influence. (BC)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Attention, Biological Parents, Comparative Analysis