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Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction
OBJECTIVE: The importance of genetic and environmental influences on children’s behavioral and emotional problems may vary as a function of environmental exposure. We previously reported that 12-year-olds with divorced parents showed more internalizing and externalizing problems than children with m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438396/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22241531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-011-0470-9 |
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author | Robbers, Sylvana van Oort, Floor Huizink, Anja Verhulst, Frank van Beijsterveldt, Catharina Boomsma, Dorret Bartels, Meike |
author_facet | Robbers, Sylvana van Oort, Floor Huizink, Anja Verhulst, Frank van Beijsterveldt, Catharina Boomsma, Dorret Bartels, Meike |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The importance of genetic and environmental influences on children’s behavioral and emotional problems may vary as a function of environmental exposure. We previously reported that 12-year-olds with divorced parents showed more internalizing and externalizing problems than children with married parents, and that externalizing problems in girls precede and predict later parental divorce. The aim of the current study was to investigate as to whether genetic and environmental influences on internalizing and externalizing problems were different for children from divorced versus non-divorced families. METHODS: Maternal ratings on internalizing and externalizing problems were collected with the Child Behavior Checklist in 4,592 twin pairs at ages 3 and 12 years, of whom 367 pairs had experienced a parental divorce between these ages. Variance in internalizing and externalizing problems at ages 3 and 12 was analyzed with biometric models in which additive genetic and environmental effects were allowed to depend on parental divorce and sex. A difference in the contribution of genetic and environmental influences between divorced and non-divorced groups would constitute evidence for gene–environment interaction. RESULTS: For both pre- and post-divorce internalizing and externalizing problems, the total variances were larger for children from divorced families, which was mainly due to higher environmental variances. As a consequence, heritabilities were lower for children from divorced families, and the relative contributions of environmental influences were higher. CONCLUSIONS: Environmental influences become more important in explaining variation in children’s problem behaviors in the context of parental divorce. |
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spelling | pubmed-34383962012-09-17 Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction Robbers, Sylvana van Oort, Floor Huizink, Anja Verhulst, Frank van Beijsterveldt, Catharina Boomsma, Dorret Bartels, Meike Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol Original Paper OBJECTIVE: The importance of genetic and environmental influences on children’s behavioral and emotional problems may vary as a function of environmental exposure. We previously reported that 12-year-olds with divorced parents showed more internalizing and externalizing problems than children with married parents, and that externalizing problems in girls precede and predict later parental divorce. The aim of the current study was to investigate as to whether genetic and environmental influences on internalizing and externalizing problems were different for children from divorced versus non-divorced families. METHODS: Maternal ratings on internalizing and externalizing problems were collected with the Child Behavior Checklist in 4,592 twin pairs at ages 3 and 12 years, of whom 367 pairs had experienced a parental divorce between these ages. Variance in internalizing and externalizing problems at ages 3 and 12 was analyzed with biometric models in which additive genetic and environmental effects were allowed to depend on parental divorce and sex. A difference in the contribution of genetic and environmental influences between divorced and non-divorced groups would constitute evidence for gene–environment interaction. RESULTS: For both pre- and post-divorce internalizing and externalizing problems, the total variances were larger for children from divorced families, which was mainly due to higher environmental variances. As a consequence, heritabilities were lower for children from divorced families, and the relative contributions of environmental influences were higher. CONCLUSIONS: Environmental influences become more important in explaining variation in children’s problem behaviors in the context of parental divorce. Springer-Verlag 2012-01-13 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3438396/ /pubmed/22241531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-011-0470-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Robbers, Sylvana van Oort, Floor Huizink, Anja Verhulst, Frank van Beijsterveldt, Catharina Boomsma, Dorret Bartels, Meike Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
title | Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
title_full | Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
title_fullStr | Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
title_short | Childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
title_sort | childhood problem behavior and parental divorce: evidence for gene–environment interaction |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438396/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22241531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-011-0470-9 |
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