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Clark, D. Angus; Klump, Kelly L.; Burt, S. Alexandra – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Parent depressive symptomatology is robust risk factor for externalizing behavior in childhood (Goodman et al., 2011). Although the precise mechanisms underlying this association have yet to be fully illuminated, there is some evidence that parent depression can impact externalizing behavior via both genetic and environmental pathways. In the…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Influence, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Burt, S. Alexandra; Klahr, Ashlea M.; Neale, Michael C.; Klump, Kelly L. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Prior studies exploring gene-environment interactions (GxE) in the development of youth conduct problems (CP) have focused almost exclusively on single-risk experiences, despite research indicating that the presence of other risk factors and or the absence of protective factors can accentuate the influence of a given risk factor on CP.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Twins, Affective Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Ganiban, Jody M.; Ulbricht, Jennifer; Saudino, Kimberly J.; Reiss, David; Neiderhiser, Jenae M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The degree to which child temperament moderates genetic and environmental contributions to parenting was examined. Participants were drawn from the Nonshared Environment and Adolescent Development project and included 720 sibling pairs, ages 13.5 + 2.0 years (Sibling 1) to 12.1 + 1.3 years (Sibling 2). The sample consisted of 6 sibling types: 93…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Shyness, Twins, Nature Nurture Controversy
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Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Petrill, Stephen A.; Thompson, Lee A.; DeThorne, Laura S. – Developmental Science, 2006
Change in task persistence was assessed in two annual assessments using teachers', testers', and observers' ratings. Participants included 79 monozygotic and 116 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs who were in Kindergarten or 1st grade (4.3 to 7.9 years old) at the initial assessment. Task persistence was widely distributed and higher among older…
Descriptors: Twins, Persistence, Genetics, Young Children
Conway, Dorice; Lytton, Hugh – 1975
This data compared language complexity measures, birth information, and family data for twins and singletons of the same sex, age, and socio-economic status. The subjects were four pairs of male twins, four pairs of female twins, four pairs of opposite sex twins, and 24 singletons, 32-33 months of age. Samples of each child's spontaneous…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Environmental Influences, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Hudziak, James J.; Derks, Eske M.; Althoff, Robert R.; Copeland, William; Boomsma, Dorret I. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: To estimate the genetic and environmental contributions to oppositional defiant behavior (ODB) from mother, father, and teacher report using the Conners Revised Short Forms in a large twin sample. Method: ODB data were collected from 1,595 mothers, 1,114 fathers, and 793 teachers of 7-year-old twin pairs from the Netherlands Twin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychiatry, Twins, Mothers