TwinssCan — Gene-Environment Interaction in Psychotic and Depressive Intermediate Phenotypes: Risk and Protective Factors in a General Population Twin Sample

Pries, Lotta-Katrin; Snijders, Clara; Menne-Lothmann, Claudia; Decoster, Jeroen; Winkel, Ruud van; Collip, Dina; Delespaul, Philippe; Hert, Marc De; Derom, Cathérine; Thiery, Evert; Jacobs, Nele; Wichers, Marieke; Gülöksüz, Sinan; Os, Jim van; Rutten, Bart P. F.

doi:10.1017/thg.2019.96

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“…Parameter estimates to construct the simulated data sets were based on similar data from an adolescent and young adult twin data set described elsewhere (i.e., TwinssCan) ( 48 , 49 ). Access to this data set only allowed us to test the power of the direct associations between parenting styles and mean daily-life social experience, as participants were not asked in the experience sampling whether they were with mothers/fathers specifically—thereby not allowing for the testing of our described interaction effects.…”

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Daily-Life Social Experiences as a Potential Mediator of the Relationship Between Parenting and Psychopathology in Adolescence

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Adolescence is a vulnerable period for psychopathology development, and certain parenting styles are consistent and robust predictors of a broad range of mental health outcomes. The mechanisms through which maladaptive parenting styles affect the development of psychopathology are assumed to be largely social in nature. Yet, the social mechanisms linking parenting to psychopathology are unexplored at arguably the most important level of functioning: daily life. This study aims to identify the associations between three parenting styles, and the experience of daily-life social interactions. Furthermore, we aim to explore the extent to which these parenting styles and altered daily-life social experiences are associated with psychopathology. In this study, we recruited a sample of N = 1,913 adolescents (63.3% girls; mean age = 13.7, age range = 11 to 20) as part of the first wave of the longitudinal cohort study “SIGMA”. Parenting styles (psychological control, responsiveness, and autonomy support) and psychopathology symptoms were assessed using a retrospective questionnaire battery. The experienced quality of social interactions in different types of company was assessed using the experience sampling method, ten times per day for 6 days. Direct associations between parenting styles and general quality of daily-life social experiences were tested using a three-level linear model, revealing significant associations between social experiences and different parenting styles. When interaction effects were added to this model, we found that maternal responsiveness and paternal psychological control mainly related to altered qualities of social interactions with parents, while paternal autonomy support was associated with better experiences of non-family social interactions. Finally, an exploratory path analysis highlighted how both paternal autonomy support and altered quality of non-family interactions are uniquely associated with psychopathology levels. These findings demonstrate the general and pervasive effects of maladaptive parenting styles, as parenting seems to broadly affect adolescents' interactions with different types of social partners in everyday life. Moreover, they illustrate a potential mediated relationship in which altered daily-life social interactions could drive the development of psychopathology. A stronger focus may be required on the role of altered day-to-day social experiences in the prevention and potentially, the treatment, of adolescent psychopathology.

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Daily-Life Social Experiences as a Potential Mediator of the Relationship Between Parenting and Psychopathology in Adolescence

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“…The current sample was recruited as part of the TwinssCan study, a longitudinal twin study that was developed to investigate gene-environment interactions in the development of psychopathology in adolescent twins and their siblings (Pries et al, 2019). All participants were recruited through the East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (EFPTS; Derom et al, 2013), a prospective and population based twin registry.…”

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Be(com)ing social: Daily-life social interactions and parental bonding

Achterhof¹,

Schneider²,

Wampers³

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Parenting experiences are hypothesized to provide a lasting basis for adaptive social functioning, but little is known about the manifestation of this effect in naturalistic, daily-life social interactions and experiences. To explore this question, adolescent and young adult twins and their siblings living with their parents (N = 628) completed the Parental Bonding Instrument and a six-day Experience Sampling period to gather information on their daily-life social context and social experience. Higher perceived overall parental bonding quality related to more positive social experiences in daily life, but not to different levels of social behaviors. Furthermore, paternal care and control dimensions were uniquely predictive of better subjective social experience. These findings demonstrate that specific aspects of parental bonding have unique effects upon how adolescents experience their social world, further extending the idea of socialization through parenting in the context of daily life.

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“…We aimed to extend previous research by using the ESM to investigate the quantity and quality of social behaviours and experiences in youths' everyday lives and associations with self-reported psychopathology symptoms. Our first study (Study 1) was a post-registered 13 analysis (i.e, a form of pre-registration for pre-existing data) from a large youth twin study 14 . We initially set out to perform these analyses in one sample and our post-registration (for Study 1 only) reflects this.…”

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“…For Study 1, N=778 adolescent and adult twins aged 15-35 and their non-twin siblings were recruited as part of the TwinssCan study, which in turn was part of the East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (see 14 The inclusion criterion for both studies was an adequate understanding of the study procedures, and for Study 1, being a member of a monozygotic or dizygotic twin pair, or a sibling of a twin. Exclusion criteria were being over 21 years of age, and having less than 30% compliance to the ESM protocol, resulting in n=663 for Study 1, and n=1027 for Study 2.…”

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General psychopathology and its social correlates in the daily lives of youth

Achterhof¹,

Schneider²,

Hagemann³

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Background: Alterations in the quantity and quality of social interactions play a role in early psychopathology, but not much is known about their involvement at the level of daily life. Aims: To better understand the social correlates of early psychopathology, the authors assessed associations between general psychopathology and the quantity and quality of social encounters in the daily lives of two independent youth samples.Method: During a six-day experience sampling period, adolescent and young adult participants of the registered Study 1 (n=663) and the internal conceptual replication in Study 2 (n=1027) were queried about their social encounters. General psychopathology was assessed using the Symptom Checklist-90 and Brief Symptom Inventory-53. The relationship between psychopathology and each outcome variable was tested in separate multilevel linear and logistic regression models. Results: General psychopathology was associated with each investigated social encounter quality. Associations between psychopathology and the number of social encounters were less apparent: In Study 1, participants with more psychopathology were not more likely to be alone (B(SE) = .10(.11), 95%CI: [-.12; .31], p=.38), whereas Study 2 participants with higher levels of psychopathology were alone more (B(SE)=.39(.06), 95%CI: [.27; .52], p<.001). Conclusions: The consistent associations between subclinical psychopathology and the experience of social interactions imply that a conceptualization of social functioning that is relevant at the level of daily life requires a greater emphasis on social experience. The negative experience of social interactions may be a more valuable marker of early psychopathology than a reduced amount of social behaviours.

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TwinssCan — Gene-Environment Interaction in Psychotic and Depressive Intermediate Phenotypes: Risk and Protective Factors in a General Population Twin Sample

Cited by 18 publications

References 71 publications

Daily-Life Social Experiences as a Potential Mediator of the Relationship Between Parenting and Psychopathology in Adolescence

Daily-Life Social Experiences as a Potential Mediator of the Relationship Between Parenting and Psychopathology in Adolescence

Be(com)ing social: Daily-life social interactions and parental bonding

General psychopathology and its social correlates in the daily lives of youth

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