Genetic and Environmental Influences on Perceptions of Self-Worth and Competence in Adolescence: A Study of Twins, Full Siblings, and Step-Siblings

McGuire, Stacy N.; Neiderhiser, Jenaè M.; Reiss, David; Hetherington, E. Mavis; Plomin, Robert

doi:10.2307/1131418

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“…Research has uncovered the heritability of numerous attitudes (Olson et al, 2001) and various aspects of self-identity (Hur, McGue, & Iacono, 1998;McGuire, Neiderhiser, Reiss, Hetherington, & Plomin, 1994). The identified heritability of name-liking is consistent with both sets of findings, whereby one's attitude toward self-associated stimuli is heritable.…”

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Liking for name predicts happiness: A behavioral genetic analysis

Luo¹,

Shi²,

Cai³

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Personality and Individual Differences

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Liking for name predicts happiness: A behavioral genetic analysis

Luo¹,

Shi²,

Cai³

et al. 2014

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Low birth weight (Clausson, Lichtenstein, and Cnattingius 2000) Self-esteem (McGuire et al 1994) Athletic activities (Olson et al 2001) Earnings (Behrman et al 1980) Modern art acceptance (Alford et al …”

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Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes

Freese¹

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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Accumulating evidence from behavioral genetics suggests that the vast majority of individual-level outcomes of abiding sociological interest are genetically influenced to a substantial degree. This raises the question of the place of genetics in social science explanations. Genomic causation is described from a counterfactualist perspective, which makes its complexity plain and highlights the distinction between identifying causes and substantiating explanations. For explanation, genomic causes must be understood as strictly mediated by the body. One implication is that the challenge of behavioral genetics for sociology is much more a challenge from psychology than biology, and a main role for genetics is as a placeholder for ignorance of more proximate influences of psychological and other embodied variation. Social scientists should not take this challenge from psychology as suggesting any especially fundamental explanatory place for either it or genetics, but the contingent importance of genetic and psychological characteristics is itself available for sociological investigation.

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“…Perceptions of self-worth and competence were examined in NEAD at Time 1 (McGuire et al, 1994) providing some of the first evidence that this construct is influenced by genetic and nonshared environmental factors, but not by shared environmental influences. When these constructs were examined at Time 2 a similar pattern of findings emerged, and stability in the constructs was found to be due primarily to genetic influences (McGuire et al, 1999).…”

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The Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) Project: A Longitudinal Family Study of Twins and Siblings from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

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Reiss

Hetherington

2007

Twin Res Hum Genet

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The Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) project is a longitudinal study of twins/siblings and parents that has been assessed 3 times: middle adolescence, late adolescence and young adulthood (N = 720 families at Time 1). Siblings varied in degree of genetic relatedness including identical twins, fraternal twins, full siblings, half siblings and genetically unrelated (or step) siblings. There were also two family types: nondivorced and step. A multimeasure, multirater approach was taken in NEAD, with data collected from all participants (2 twins or siblings, mother and father) as well as from coded videotaped observations of family interactions. Detailed assessments of family relationships, adolescent adjustment and competence were collected at all 3 times. The original aim of NEAD was to identify systematic sources of nonshared environmental influences that contribute to differences among family members. Although systematic sources of nonshared environmental influences were not found in NEAD, three major sets of findings emerged: (1) genetic influences on family relationships and on associations between family relationships and adolescent adjustment; (2) genetic and environmental influences on adolescent adjustment, comorbidity and stability and change in adolescent adjustment from middle to late adolescence; and (3) genetic influences on relationships outside the family.

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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Perceptions of Self-Worth and Competence in Adolescence: A Study of Twins, Full Siblings, and Step-Siblings

Cited by 53 publications

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Liking for name predicts happiness: A behavioral genetic analysis

Liking for name predicts happiness: A behavioral genetic analysis

Genetics and the Social Science Explanation of Individual Outcomes

The Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) Project: A Longitudinal Family Study of Twins and Siblings from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

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