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Zheng, Lei; Chen, Jie; Li, Xinying; Gan, Yiqun – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Future orientation tends to prevent engagement in risk behaviours and results in good academic performance among adolescents. Our study aimed to establish whether genetic factors contributed to future orientation among Chinese adolescents. We recruited 988 pairs of twins from Beijing. By constructing a high-order A (additive genetic variance) C…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Twins, Orientation
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Chen, Jie; Li, Xinying; McGue, Matt – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Confounding introduced by gene-environment correlation (rGE) may prevent one from observing a true gene-environment interaction (G × E) effect on psychopathology. The present study investigated the interacting effect of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and stressful life events (SLEs) on adolescent depression while controlling for the…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Foreign Countries, Adolescents