The different origins of stability and change in antisocial personality disorder symptoms

Burt, S. Alexandra; Carter, LaTanya A.; Iacono, William G.

doi:10.1017/s0033291706009020

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“…First, genetic influences on interpersonal control, positive affect, and negative affect performed precisely as most behavioral geneticists would have predicted given the very short assessment intervals: they persisted almost in their entirety to all other days/minutes in the study. This stability in genetic effects is fully consistent with that observed in other longitudinal work (Bartels et al, 2004; Burt, Carter, McGue, & Iacono, 2007; Haberstick, Schmitz, Young, & Hewitt, 2006; Hopwood et al, 2011; McGue et al, 2005), and serves to reinforce extant notions regarding the critically important role of genetics in shaping human behavior.…”

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

2014

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

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“…The growth trajectory of this factor also conformed to a developmental course commonly observed for EXT disorders (i.e., an escalation until early adulthood followed by a significant decline; Burt et al, 2007; Jackson, Sher, & Wood, 2000; Moffitt, 1993; Vrieze et al, 2012) and was consistent with research at earlier ages showing that individual EXT diagnoses do not follow distinctive developmental trajectories but rather develop in concert with one another (Hicks et al, 2007). …”

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“…We included gender as a covariate to control for any effect of gender on development (Burt et al, 2007; Vrieze et al, 2012). 2 Our primary goal was to understand the role of age 17 personality in the developmental course of EXT so we interpreted the effect of the personality traits on the growth factors.…”

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Personality Traits Predict the Developmental Course of Externalizing: A Four‐Wave Longitudinal Study Spanning Age 17 to Age 29

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Journal of Personality

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Objective The objective of the present study was to determine whether and how personality predicts the developmental course of externalizing problems, including antisocial behavior and substance dependence. Method In a large population-based longitudinal study (N=1252), the 11 personality traits assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire were measured at age 17, and DSM diagnoses of adult antisocial behavior, alcohol dependence, and drug dependence were obtained at ages 17, 20, 24, and 29. We fit a quadratic multiple indicator latent growth model where the three diagnoses loaded onto an externalizing factor. Results This model fit the data well, and externalizing increased until it started to decline at age 24. High aggression and low control were the most significant predictors of the development of externalizing, with aggression playing a significant role in the development of externalizing across the 12-year time span, and control predicting the development from age 17 to 24. Conclusions The findings highlight the importance of considering the developmental course of externalizing in the context of personality and suggest that the specific personality traits of aggression and control might be targeted in externalizing prevention and intervention programs.

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“…Studies examining the genetic and environmental stability of antisocial and externalizing behavior in smaller samples (i.e., samples including less than 1,500 twins) generally report that the stability is largely due to genetic influences (Burt et al 2007). …”

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The Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Antisocial Behavior from Childhood to Emerging Adulthood

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Previous research suggests that both genetic and environmental influences are important for antisocial behavior across the life span, even though the prevalence and incidence of antisocial behavior varies considerably across ages. However, little is known of how genetic and environmental effects influence the development of antisocial behavior. A total of 2,600 male and female twins from the population-based Swedish Twin Registry were included in the present study. Antisocial behavior was measured on four occasions, when twins were 8-9, 13-14, 16-17, and 19-20 years old. Longitudinal analyses of the data were conducted using structural equation modeling. The stability of antisocial behavior over time was explained by a common latent persistent antisocial behavior factor. A common genetic influence accounted for 67% of the total variance in this latent factor, the shared environment explained 26%, and the remaining 7% was due to the non-shared environment. Significant age-specific shared environmental factors were found at ages 13-14 years, suggesting that common experiences (e.g., peers) are important for antisocial behavior at this age. Results from this study show that genetic as well as shared environmental influences are important in antisocial behavior that persists from childhood to emerging adulthood.

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The different origins of stability and change in antisocial personality disorder symptoms

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 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

Personality Traits Predict the Developmental Course of Externalizing: A Four‐Wave Longitudinal Study Spanning Age 17 to Age 29

The Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Antisocial Behavior from Childhood to Emerging Adulthood

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