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Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits

BACKGROUND: Psychopathic traits involve interpersonal manipulation, callous affect, erratic lifestyle, and antisocial behavior. Though adult psychopathic traits emerge from both genetic and environmental risk, no studies have examined etiologic associations between adult psychopathic traits and expe...

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Autores principales: Dotterer, Hailey L., Vazquez, Alexandra Y., Hyde, Luke W., Neumann, Craig S., Santtila, Pekka, Pezzoli, Patrizia, Johansson, Ada, Burt, S. Alexandra
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9976022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37132644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721002269
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author Dotterer, Hailey L.
Vazquez, Alexandra Y.
Hyde, Luke W.
Neumann, Craig S.
Santtila, Pekka
Pezzoli, Patrizia
Johansson, Ada
Burt, S. Alexandra
author_facet Dotterer, Hailey L.
Vazquez, Alexandra Y.
Hyde, Luke W.
Neumann, Craig S.
Santtila, Pekka
Pezzoli, Patrizia
Johansson, Ada
Burt, S. Alexandra
author_sort Dotterer, Hailey L.
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description BACKGROUND: Psychopathic traits involve interpersonal manipulation, callous affect, erratic lifestyle, and antisocial behavior. Though adult psychopathic traits emerge from both genetic and environmental risk, no studies have examined etiologic associations between adult psychopathic traits and experiences of parenting in childhood, or the extent to which parenting practices may impact the heritability of adult psychopathic traits using a genetically-informed design. METHODS: In total, 1842 adult twins from the community reported their current psychopathic traits and experiences of negative parenting during childhood. We fit bivariate genetic models to the data, decomposing the variance within, and the covariance between, psychopathic traits and perceived negative parenting into their genetic and environmental components. We then fit a genotype × environment interaction model to evaluate whether negative parenting moderated the etiology of psychopathic traits. RESULTS: Psychopathic traits were moderately heritable with substantial non-shared environmental influences. There were significant associations between perceived negative parenting and three of four psychopathy facets (interpersonal manipulation, erratic lifestyle, antisocial tendencies, but not callous affect). These associations were attributable to a common non-shared environmental pathway and not to overlapping genetic effects. Additionally, we found that primarily shared environmental influences were stronger on psychopathic traits for individuals with a history of greater negative parenting. CONCLUSIONS: Utilizing a genetically-informed design, we found that both genetic and non-shared environmental factors contribute to the emergence of psychopathic traits. Moreover, perceptions of negative parenting emerged as a clear environmental influence on the development of interpersonal, lifestyle, and antisocial features of psychopathy.
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spelling pubmed-99760222023-03-02 Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits Dotterer, Hailey L. Vazquez, Alexandra Y. Hyde, Luke W. Neumann, Craig S. Santtila, Pekka Pezzoli, Patrizia Johansson, Ada Burt, S. Alexandra Psychol Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Psychopathic traits involve interpersonal manipulation, callous affect, erratic lifestyle, and antisocial behavior. Though adult psychopathic traits emerge from both genetic and environmental risk, no studies have examined etiologic associations between adult psychopathic traits and experiences of parenting in childhood, or the extent to which parenting practices may impact the heritability of adult psychopathic traits using a genetically-informed design. METHODS: In total, 1842 adult twins from the community reported their current psychopathic traits and experiences of negative parenting during childhood. We fit bivariate genetic models to the data, decomposing the variance within, and the covariance between, psychopathic traits and perceived negative parenting into their genetic and environmental components. We then fit a genotype × environment interaction model to evaluate whether negative parenting moderated the etiology of psychopathic traits. RESULTS: Psychopathic traits were moderately heritable with substantial non-shared environmental influences. There were significant associations between perceived negative parenting and three of four psychopathy facets (interpersonal manipulation, erratic lifestyle, antisocial tendencies, but not callous affect). These associations were attributable to a common non-shared environmental pathway and not to overlapping genetic effects. Additionally, we found that primarily shared environmental influences were stronger on psychopathic traits for individuals with a history of greater negative parenting. CONCLUSIONS: Utilizing a genetically-informed design, we found that both genetic and non-shared environmental factors contribute to the emergence of psychopathic traits. Moreover, perceptions of negative parenting emerged as a clear environmental influence on the development of interpersonal, lifestyle, and antisocial features of psychopathy. Cambridge University Press 2023-02 2021-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9976022/ /pubmed/37132644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721002269 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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Dotterer, Hailey L.
Vazquez, Alexandra Y.
Hyde, Luke W.
Neumann, Craig S.
Santtila, Pekka
Pezzoli, Patrizia
Johansson, Ada
Burt, S. Alexandra
Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
title Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
title_full Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
title_fullStr Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
title_full_unstemmed Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
title_short Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
title_sort elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9976022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37132644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721002269
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