A Genetically Informed Study of Associations between Family Functioning and Child Psychosocial Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Schermerhorn, Alice C.; D'Onofrio, Brian M.; Turkheimer, Eric; Ganiban, Jody M.; Spotts, Erica L.; Lichtenstein, Paul; Reiss, David; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
Titel	A Genetically Informed Study of Associations between Family Functioning and Child Psychosocial Adjustment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 3, S.707-725 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0021362
Schlagwörter	Twins; Marital Satisfaction; Conflict; Child Rearing; Psychopathology; Parent Child Relationship; Genetics; Foreign Countries; Family Relationship; Correlation; Emotional Adjustment; Spouses; Behavior Problems; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Twin; Zwilling; Konflikt; Kindererziehung; Psychopathologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Humangenetik; Ausland; Korrelation; Emotionale Anpassung; Ehepartner; Schweden
Abstract	Research has documented associations between family functioning and offspring psychosocial adjustment, but questions remain regarding whether these associations are partly due to confounding genetic factors and other environmental factors. The current study used a genetically informed approach, the Children of Twins design, to explore the associations between family functioning (family conflict, marital quality, and agreement about parenting) and offspring psychopathology. Participants were 867 twin pairs (388 monozygotic; 479 dizygotic) from the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden, their spouses, and children (51.7% female; M = 15.75 years). The results suggested associations between exposure to family conflict (assessed by the mother, father, and child) and child adjustment were independent of genetic factors and other environmental factors. However, when family conflict was assessed using only children's reports, the results indicated that genetic factors also influenced these associations. In addition, the analyses indicated that exposure to low marital quality and agreement about parenting was associated with children's internalizing and externalizing problems and that genetic factors also contributed to the associations of marital quality and agreement about parenting with offspring externalizing problems. (Contains 6 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10