Oxytocin and Parent-Child Interaction in the Development of Empathy among Children at Risk for Autism

Autor/inn/en	McDonald, Nicole M.; Baker, Jason K.; Messinger, Daniel S.
Titel	Oxytocin and Parent-Child Interaction in the Development of Empathy among Children at Risk for Autism
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 52 (2016) 5, S.735-745 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000104
Schlagwörter	Genetics; Physiology; Parent Child Relationship; Interaction; Empathy; Toddlers; At Risk Persons; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Play; Correlation; Predictor Variables; Social Development; Antisocial Behavior; Brain; Longitudinal Studies; Siblings; Young Children; Cognitive Ability; Motor Development; Diagnostic Tests; Observation; Multiple Regression Analysis; Mullen Scales of Early Learning; Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humangenetik; Physiologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interaktion; Empathie; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Risikogruppe; Autismus; Spiel; Korrelation; Prädiktor; Soziale Entwicklung; Gehirn; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sibling; Geschwister; Frühe Kindheit; Denkfähigkeit; Motorische Entwicklung; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Beobachtung
Abstract	This longitudinal study investigated whether variation in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and early parent-child interactions predicted later empathic behavior in 84 toddlers at high or low familial risk for autism spectrum disorder. Two well-studied OXTR single-nucleotide polymorphisms, rs53576 and rs2254298, were examined. Parent-child interaction was measured at 15 and 18 months of age during free play sessions. Empathy was measured at 24 and 30 months using a response to parental distress paradigm. While there was no direct association between parent-child interaction quality or OXTR and empathy, rs53576 moderated the relation between interaction quality and empathy. Results suggest that the interplay between OXTR and early parent-child interactions predicts individual differences in empathy in children at varying risk for atypical social development. Findings are consonant with a differential susceptibility model in which an OXTR variant may increase the social salience of interaction processes for specific allele carriers. These results increase our understanding of predictors of empathy development in young children with a wide range of social outcomes. (As Provided).
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