Genetic and Environmental Parent–Child Transmission of Value Orientations: An Extended Twin Family Study

Kandler, Christian; Gottschling, Juliana; Spinath, Frank M.

doi:10.1111/cdev.12452

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“…These findings were explained in terms of universals in gender‐roles and evolutionary antecedents. First studies with 7‐ to 11‐year‐old children from Germany, Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, and the USA yielded similar results (Döring et al, ; Kandler et al, ). We thus expected that value priorities would differ between males and females in both generations.…”

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“…Kandler et al () measured values of older children (age 7–11 years, M = 9.08) and their parents. They employed a version of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), a questionnaire for adults, and argue that they measured only 8 of the 10 Schwartz values, in order to avoid children's overload.…”

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“…Consequently, we do not know whether this difference reflects a stable difference between generations or whether it may be due to an increasing importance of openness and a decreasing importance of conservation values at the onset of adolescence (see Cieciuch et al, 2016). Kandler et al (2016) measured values of older children (age 7-11 years, M = 9.08) and their parents. They employed a version of the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), a questionnaire for adults, and argue that they measured only 8 of the 10 Schwartz values, in order to avoid children's overload.…”

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“…Values of the next generation have been discussed extensively in society and in science, where similarities and differences between the parents' and the children's generation have been of particular interest (e.g., Kroh, 2009;Welzel & Inglehart, 2010) This results from assuming experiences in childhood to determine the behaviour of adult citizens (Van Deth, Abendschön, & Vollmar, 2011). Indeed, family studies with parents and their adult children (e.g., Boehnke, 2001) and their adolescent children (e.g., Barni, Knafo, Ben-Arieh, & Haj-Yahia, 2014;Kandler, Gottschling, & Spinath, 2016;Phalet & Schönpflug, 2001) point to shared value priorities in the family.…”

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“…Such measures have been developed only recently (e.g., Döring, Blauensteiner, Aryus, Drögekamp, & Bilsky, 2010). We could locate only two family studies, which include children's self-reported values: One is based on a sub-set of values as measured in a sample of older children (Kandler et al, 2016); the other (Boehnke & Welzel, 2006) collected data with a preliminary instrument in a sample of 7-to 14-year-old participants without differentiating between the distinct developmental stages of middle childhood and early adolescence.…”

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Are children's value priorities different from their parents' generation? We present data from the youngest children's sample that has been included in a comprehensive family study of values so far: Our study is based on self-reported values of 127 six-to elevenyear-old German children (M=7.89, SD=1.35) and their mothers and fathers. We further took into account two potentially interacting developmental variables that have been suggested in the literature: (1) family members' gender and (2) cultural milieu (we looked specifically at families with Turkish immigration background and families without immigration background). While values of self-transcendence, selfenhancement, and openness to change did not differ significantly between the two generations, children found conservation significantly more important than their parents. This contrasts with findings from previous studies with older participants. We discuss to what extent this effect may be unique to this developmental stage of middle childhood that had not been covered by previous research. Females valued conservation more than males, and conservation was more important in families with as compared to families without Turkish immigration background. There was neither a gender x generation nor a cultural milieu x generation interaction.

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Genetic differential susceptibility to the parent–child relationship quality and the life span development of compassion

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The development of compassion for others might be influenced by the social experiences made during childhood and has a genetic component. No research has yet investigated whether the parent–child relationship quality interacts with genetic variation in the oxytocin and dopamine systems in predicting compassion over the life span. In the prospective Young Finns Study (N = 2099, 43.9% men), we examined the interaction between mother‐reported emotional warmth and intolerance toward their child assessed in 1980 (age of participants, 3–18 years) and two established genetic risk scores for oxytocin levels and dopamine signaling activity. Dispositional compassion for others was measured with the Temperament and Character Inventory 1997, 2001, and 2012 (age of participants, 20–50 years). We found a gene–environment interaction (p = .031) that remained marginally significant after adjustment for multiple testing. In line with the differential susceptibility hypothesis, only participants who carry alleles associated with low dopamine signaling activity had higher levels of compassion when growing up with emotionally warm parents, whereas they had lower levels of compassion when their parents were emotionally cold. Children's genetic variability in the dopamine system might result in plasticity to early environmental influences that have a long‐lasting effect on the development of compassion. However, our findings need replication.

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The Structure and Sources of Right–wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation

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Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) are widely used constructs in research on social and political attitudes. This study examined their hierarchical and correlative structure (across sexes, generations and rater perspectives), as well as how genetic and environmental factors may contribute to individual differences in them (using different rater perspectives and nuclear twin family data). We found a substantive common aspect (beyond shared artificial variance arising from socially desirable responding) underlying both RWA and SDO: aggression against subordinate groups. We discussed how this aspect could help to explain the commonly reported correlation between the two concepts in Western countries. Estimates of genetic and environmental components in RWA and SDO based on self-reports were quite comparable with those based on peer reports. When controlling for error variance and taking assortative mating into account, individual differences in RWA were primarily due to genetic contributions including genotype-environment correlation, whereas variance in SDO was largely attributable to environmental sources shared and not shared by twins. The findings are discussed in terms of the utility of RWA and SDO as basic constructs to describe individual differences in social attitudes and with respect to the different patterns of genetic and environmental influences that underlie them.

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Genetic and Environmental Parent–Child Transmission of Value Orientations: An Extended Twin Family Study

Cited by 30 publications

References 84 publications

Values in families with young children: Insights from two cultural milieus in Germany

Values in families with young children: Insights from two cultural milieus in Germany

Genetic differential susceptibility to the parent–child relationship quality and the life span development of compassion

The Structure and Sources of Right–wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation

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