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Genetic and Environmental Components of Adolescent Adjustment and Parental Behavior: A Multivariate Analysis
- Source :
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Child Development . Sep-Oct 2005 76(5):1104-1115. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Adolescent adjustment measures may be related to each other and to the social environment in various ways. Are these relationships similar in genetic and environmental sources of covariation, or different? A multivariate behaviorgenetic analysis was made of 6 adjustment and 3 treatment composites from the study Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development, using 674 same-sex adolescent sibling pairs aged 9-11. Cholesky decompositions of the total covariance matrix yielded additive and nonadditive genetic, and shared and nonshared environmental matrices. Factor analyses led to 3 factors for all but shared environment. The first 2 factors resembled Neuroticism and Extraversion factors typically found for personality; the third factor, parental monitoring and control, appeared to have different associations in different matrices.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0009-3920
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Child Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ718213
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00900.x