Linkages between Children's and Their Friends' Social and Physical Aggression: Evidence for a Gene-Environment Interaction?

Autor/inn/en	Brendgen, Mara; Boivin, Michel; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M.; Dionne, Ginette; Tremblay, Richard E.; Perusse, Daniel
Titel	Linkages between Children's and Their Friends' Social and Physical Aggression: Evidence for a Gene-Environment Interaction?
Quelle	In: Child Development, 79 (2008) 1, S.13-29 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01108.x
Schlagwörter	Aggression; Genetics; Interaction; Antisocial Behavior; Twins; Young Children; Environmental Influences; Peer Influence; Correlation; Child Behavior; Social Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humangenetik; Interaktion; Twin; Zwilling; Frühe Kindheit; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Korrelation; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	Based on a sample of 406 seven-year-old twins, this study examined whether exposure to friends' social or physical aggression, respectively, moderates the effect of heritability on children's own social and physical aggression. Univariate analyses showed that children's own social and physical aggression were significantly explained by genetic factors, whereas friends' social and physical aggression represented "true" environmental factors that were unrelated to children's genetic dispositions. Multivariate analyses further suggested a possible gene-environment interaction in the link between friends' and children's physical aggression but not in the link between friends' and children's social aggression. Instead, friends' social aggression was directly related to children's social aggression, in addition to genetic effects on this behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10