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Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment
Why is disorganized attachment associated with punitive-controlling behavior in some, but caregiving-controlling in others? Hygen et al. (2014) proposed that variation in the Catechol-O-methyl transferase(COMT) Val158Met genotype explains this variation, providing preliminary data to this effect. We...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27462283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01013 |
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author | Li, Zhi Hygen, Beate W. Widaman, Keith F. Berg-Nielsen, Turid S. Wichstrøm, Lars Belsky, Jay |
author_facet | Li, Zhi Hygen, Beate W. Widaman, Keith F. Berg-Nielsen, Turid S. Wichstrøm, Lars Belsky, Jay |
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description | Why is disorganized attachment associated with punitive-controlling behavior in some, but caregiving-controlling in others? Hygen et al. (2014) proposed that variation in the Catechol-O-methyl transferase(COMT) Val158Met genotype explains this variation, providing preliminary data to this effect. We offer a conceptual replication, analyzing data on 560 children (males: 275) drawn from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. As predicted, competitive model-fitting indicated that disorganized infants carrying Met alleles engage in more positive behavior and less negative behavior than other children at age 5 and 11, with the reverse true of Val/Val homozygotes, seemingly consistent with caregiving-controlling and punitive-controlling styles, respectively, but only in the case of maternal and not teacher reports, thereby confirmating a relationship-specific hypothesis. |
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spelling | pubmed-49403992016-07-26 Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment Li, Zhi Hygen, Beate W. Widaman, Keith F. Berg-Nielsen, Turid S. Wichstrøm, Lars Belsky, Jay Front Psychol Psychology Why is disorganized attachment associated with punitive-controlling behavior in some, but caregiving-controlling in others? Hygen et al. (2014) proposed that variation in the Catechol-O-methyl transferase(COMT) Val158Met genotype explains this variation, providing preliminary data to this effect. We offer a conceptual replication, analyzing data on 560 children (males: 275) drawn from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. As predicted, competitive model-fitting indicated that disorganized infants carrying Met alleles engage in more positive behavior and less negative behavior than other children at age 5 and 11, with the reverse true of Val/Val homozygotes, seemingly consistent with caregiving-controlling and punitive-controlling styles, respectively, but only in the case of maternal and not teacher reports, thereby confirmating a relationship-specific hypothesis. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4940399/ /pubmed/27462283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01013 Text en Copyright © 2016 Li, Hygen, Widaman, Berg-Nielsen, Wichstrøm and Belsky. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Li, Zhi Hygen, Beate W. Widaman, Keith F. Berg-Nielsen, Turid S. Wichstrøm, Lars Belsky, Jay Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment |
title | Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment |
title_full | Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment |
title_fullStr | Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment |
title_full_unstemmed | Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment |
title_short | Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment |
title_sort | disorganization, comt, and children's social behavior: the norwegian hypothesis of legacy of disorganized attachment |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4940399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27462283 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01013 |
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