The effect of common rearing on adolescent adjustment:  Evidence from a U.S. adoption cohort.

McGue, Matt; Sharma, Anu Rani; Benson, P. F.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.32.4.604

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“…The shared environmental estimates did not reach significance, however. Our findings converge with those from studies of both adopted children (McGue, Sharma, & Benson, 1996;Neiderhiser & McGuire, 1994) and other types of siblings (McGuire et al, 1999). Multiple studies using different samples and methodology have also found that shared environmental influences have little to no impact on self-esteem level.…”

Section: Behavioral Genetics Analysessupporting

confidence: 33%

Genetic influences on level and stability of self-esteem

2006

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We attempted to clarify the relation between self-esteem level (high vs. low) and perceived self-esteem stability (within-person variability) by using a behavioral genetics approach. We tested whether the same or independent genetic and environmental influences impact on level and stability. Adolescent twin siblings (n ¼ 183 pairs) completed level and stability scales at two time points. Heritability for both was substantial. The remaining variance in each was attributable to nonshared environmental influences. Shared environmental influences were not significant. Level and stability of self-esteem shared common antecedents via genetic and non-shared environmental influences. Nonetheless, stability was influenced by substantial unique genetic and non-shared environmental influences. The results validate the notion that level and stability are partially autonomous components of self-esteem.

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Section: Behavioral Genetics Analysessupporting

confidence: 33%

Genetic influences on level and stability of self-esteem

2006

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“…The lack of any evidence for a relationship between parental alcoholism and drinking among ALDH deficient individuals is consistent with other research suggesting that parent-offspring resemblance for drinking behavior is primarily genetically and not environmentally mediated (Cloninger, Bohman, & Sigvardsson, 1981;Goodwin, Schulsinger, Hermansen, Guze, & Winokur, 1973;McGue, Sharma, & Benson, 1996a). Our finding that sibling drinking behavior was consistently and moderately associated with adolescent drinking behavior implicates siblings as a potent but arguably underappreciated source of familial environmental effect on adolescent behavior (McGue, Sharma, & Benson, 1996b;Slomkowski, Rende, Conger, Simons, & Conger, 2001;Slomkowski, Rende, Novak, Lloyd-Richardson, & Niaura, 2005).…”

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Gene-Environment Interplay

2012

Advances in Genetics

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To determine if drinking behavior in adolescence provides a "gateway" leading to the misuse of other psychoactive substances and antisocial behavior, we genotyped 180 Asian adolescent adoptees to determine if they inherited the deficient from of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) enzyme that is important in the metabolism of alcohol. Based on the gateway model, we hypothesized that those with normal enzyme activity (70% of the sample) who began to misuse alcohol would also misuse other drugs and display antisocial tendencies. Those with the enzyme deficiency (30%), because they experience unpleasant side effects associated with drinking, were expected to show less evidence of alcohol misuse and thus be less likely to progress to the misuse of other substances or engage in antisocial acts. Consistent with previous research, we found that ALDH2 deficiency was significantly associated with lower rates of drinking and getting drunk but not with ever having tried alcohol. Contrary to the gateway model, we found no evidence that ALDH2 deficiency was associated with lower rates of nonalcohol substance use or antisociality. Finally, in an examination of factors that may moderate the impact of the metabolic protection because of ALDH2 deficiency, we identified siblings rather than parents as the major source of familial environmental effect on adolescent drinking.

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“…The correlations between parenting and teacherrated aggression were insignificant in adoptive families. The correlations between adolescent problems and ratings of the quality of family relationships by their mothers were higher in families in which parents reared their own children than in adoptive families (McGue, Sharma, & Benson, 1996). Taken together, these finding suggest that genotypic differences among parents influence their parenting and that these genotypic differences are transmitted to children, in whom they are manifested by psychiatric symptoms.…”

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The Interplay Between Genotypes and Family Relationships

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2005

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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ABSTRACT-Children's genotypes and their social relationships are correlated throughout their development. Heritable characteristics of children evoke strong and specific responses from their parents; frequently, these same heritable characteristics also influence the children's adjustment. Moreover, parental heritable traits that influence their parenting are also transmitted to children and influence their children's adjustment. Thus, genetically influenced evocative processes from children and parental-transmission mechanisms influence the covariances between measures of family relationships and child development. These findings suggest new targets for preventing adverse development: altering parental responses to heritable characteristics of children and influencing the genetically influenced ontogeny of parenting.

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The effect of common rearing on adolescent adjustment: Evidence from a U.S. adoption cohort.

Abstract: We thank Thomas i. Bouchard, Robert Cudeck, and Auke Tellegen for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the article. The research presented was supported in part by Grants R01-MH42620 and K02-AAO0175 from the National Institutes of Health.

Cited by 64 publications

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Genetic influences on level and stability of self-esteem

Genetic influences on level and stability of self-esteem

Gene-Environment Interplay

The Interplay Between Genotypes and Family Relationships

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