Environmental Contributions to the Stability of Antisocial Behavior over Time: Are They Shared or Non-shared?

Burt, S. Alexandra; Iacono, William G.

doi:10.1007/s10802-009-9367-4

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“…By contrast, non-shared environmental correlations decreased monotonically with increasing lag length and did so even across assessment intervals as short as 5 minutes. Such results provide an important extension of previous twin and adoption studies (Burt, et al, 2010; Hopwood et al, 2011; McGue et al, 2005; Rutter et al, 1999; Turkheimer & Waldron, 2000), and imply that non-shared influences on many emotional/interpersonal behaviors may be idiosyncratic and unsystematic in nature prior to adulthood.…”

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“…More recent research conducted during childhood and adolescence, however, has argued against this proposition. This work has instead indicated that the shared environment is moderate in magnitude for many childhood phenotypes (Burt, 2009), evidences high levels of stability across intervals of even several years (Burt et al, 2010), and is readily identifiable (Burt, Barnes, McGue, & Iacono, 2008; Burt, Krueger, McGue, & Iacono, 2003; Burt, McGue, Krueger, & Iacono, 2007; Klahr, McGue, Iacono, & Burt, 2011). The current findings do little to undercut these conclusions, in that shared environmental influences were observed to be significant and moderate in magnitude for one of the two child phenotypes examined here (child control).…”

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“…In contrast to genetic and shared environmental influences, non-shared environmental influences were observed to be largely (and, in some cases, exclusively) age-specific, accounting for at most 6-10% of the stability in internalizing and externalizing problems over time. These findings of temporal instability in non-shared environmental influences in particular do not appear to be specific to twin studies, as a recent longitudinal adoption study of antisocial behavior across adolescence and into emerging adulthood found highly similar patterns of instability (Burt, McGue, & Iacono, 2010). Nor are these findings specific to youth psychopathology.…”

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Do Non-shared Environmental Influences Persist Over Time? An Examination of Days and Minutes

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Non-shared environmental influences show only minimal stability over time prior to adulthood. The long assessment lags (typically 3-5 years) that characterize most longitudinal twin studies, however, make it difficult to interpret these results. To more rigorously evaluate non-shared environmental stability prior to adulthood, we fitted biometric correlated factors models to 1) seven consecutive days of self-reported negative and positive affect in 239 twin pairs aged 16-25 years and 2) seven consecutive minutes of observer rated warmth and control in 687 twin pairs aged 6-10 years. We then empirically examined patterns of etiologic stability over time using a mixed effects analog to the one-way ANOVA. Genetic and shared environmental correlations were found to be highly stable over both days and minutes. By contrast, non-shared environmental correlations decreased monotonically with increasing lag length, and moreover, were small-to moderate in magnitude when examining intervals longer than a few minutes. Such findings imply that the non-shared environment may be comprised primarily of transient and idiosyncratic effects prior to adulthood.

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“… 1 The focus on CD at intake but AAB at follow-up (see Burt, McGue, & Iacono, 2010) allowed us to accommodate some of the developmental change in antisocial behavior across adolescence, while maintaining a focus on clinically-meaningful levels of these behaviors. In childhood, for example, antisocial behaviors include lying, stealing, destroying property, setting fires, and being physically cruel.…”

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The association between parent–child conflict and adolescent conduct problems over time: Results from a longitudinal adoption study.

Klahr¹,

McGue²,

Iacono³

et al. 2011

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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A handful of prior adoption studies have confirmed that the cross-sectional relationship between child conduct problems and parent/child conflict is at least partially shared environmental in origin. However, as the direction of causation between parenting and delinquency remains unclear, this relationship could be better explained by the adolescent's propensity to elicit conflictive parenting, a phenomenon referred to as an evocative gene-environment correlation. The current study thus examined the prospective relationship between conduct problems and parent-child conflict in a sample of adoptive families. Participants included 672 adolescents in 405 adoptive families assessed at two time points roughly 4 years apart. Results indicated that parent-child conflict predicts the development of conduct problems, whereas conduct problems do not predict increases in parent-child conflict. Such findings suggest that evocative gene-environment correlations are highly unlikely as an explanation of prior shared environmental effects during adolescence. Moreover, because the adolescents in this study do not share genes with their adoptive parents, the association between conduct problems and parent-child conflict is indicative of shared environmental mediation in particular. Implications of our findings are discussed.

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“…Although early work focused primarily on the non-shared environment, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in the shared environment. Indeed, Burt (2009) argued that shared environmental influences on child and adolescent psychopathology are typically moderate in magnitude, and unlike non-shared environmental influences, they appear to persist over time (at least up through late adolescence; see Burt, McGue, & Iacono, 2010). …”

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The Relationship between Parent-Child Conflict and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: Confirming Shared Environmental Mediation

Klahr

Rueter

McGue

et al. 2011

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Prior studies have indicated that the relationship between0020parent-child conflict and adolescent antisocial behavior is at least partially shared environmental in origin. However, all available research on this topic (to our knowledge) relies exclusively on parent and/or adolescent informant-reports, both of which are subject to various forms of rater bias. As the presence of significant shared environmental effects has often been attributed to rater bias in the past (Baker, Jacobsen, Raine, Lozano, & Bezdjian, 2007; Bartels et al., 2004; Bartels et al., 2003; Hewitt, Silberg, Neale, & Eaves, 1992), it would be important to confirm that findings of shared environmental mediation persist when even examining (presumably more objective) observer-ratings of these constructs. The current study thus examined the origins of the relationship between parent-child conflict and adolescent acting-out behavior, as measured using both observer-ratings and various informant-reports. Participants included 1,199 adopted and non-adopted adolescents in 610 families from the Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS). Results indicated that parent-child conflict consistently predicts acting-out behavior in adopted adolescents, and moreover, that this association is equivalent to that in biologically-related adolescents. Most importantly, these findings did not vary across parent- and adolescent-reported or observer-ratings of parent-child conflict and acting-out behavior. Such findings argue strongly against rater bias as a primary explanation of shared environmental mediation of the association between parent-child conflict and adolescent antisocial behavior.

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Environmental Contributions to the Stability of Antisocial Behavior over Time: Are They Shared or Non-shared?

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Do Non-shared Environmental Influences Persist Over Time? An Examination of Days and Minutes

Do Non-shared Environmental Influences Persist Over Time? An Examination of Days and Minutes

The association between parent–child conflict and adolescent conduct problems over time: Results from a longitudinal adoption study.

The Relationship between Parent-Child Conflict and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: Confirming Shared Environmental Mediation

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