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Adolescent age moderates genetic and environmental influences on parent–adolescent positivity and negativity: Implications for genotype–environment correlation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2015

Kristine Marceau ,
Valerie S. Knopik ,
Jenae M. Neiderhiser ,
Paul Lichtenstein ,
Erica L. Spotts ,
Jody M. Ganiban  and
David Reiss
Kristine Marceau*
Affiliation:
Brown University Rhode Island Hospital
Valerie S. Knopik
Affiliation:
Brown University Rhode Island Hospital
Jenae M. Neiderhiser*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Paul Lichtenstein
Affiliation:
Karolinska Institute
Erica L. Spotts
Affiliation:
NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Jody M. Ganiban
Affiliation:
George Washington University
David Reiss
Affiliation:
Yale University
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Kristine Marceau, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, G-S121-4, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912; E-mail: Kristine_marceau@brown.edu
Jenae M. Neiderhiser, 141 Moore Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802; E-mail: jenaemn@psu.edu.
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Abstract

We examined how genotype–environment correlation processes differ as a function of adolescent age. We tested whether adolescent age moderates genetic and environmental influences on positivity and negativity in mother–adolescent and father–adolescent relationships using parallel samples of twin parents from the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden and twin/sibling adolescents from the Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development Study. We inferred differences in the role of passive and nonpassive genotype–environment correlation based on biometric moderation findings. The findings indicated that nonpassive gene–environment correlation played a stronger role for positivity in mother– and father–adolescent relationships in families with older adolescents than in families with younger adolescents, and that passive gene–environment correlation played a stronger role for positivity in the mother–adolescent relationship in families with younger adolescents than in families with older adolescents. Implications of these findings for the timing and targeting of interventions on family relationships are discussed.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 149 - 166
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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