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Chaotic homes and children's disruptive behavior : a longitudinal cross-lagged twin study
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Jaffee, Sara R., Hanscombe, Ken B., Haworth, Claire M. A., Davis, Oliver S. P. and Plomin, Robert (2012) Chaotic homes and children's disruptive behavior : a longitudinal cross-lagged twin study. Psychological Science, Volume 23 (Number 6). pp. 643-650. doi:10.1177/0956797611431693 ISSN 1467-9280.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611431693
Abstract
Chaotic home lives are correlated with behavior problems in children. In the study reported here, we tested whether there was a cross-lagged relation between children's experience of chaos and their disruptive behaviors (conduct problems and hyperactivity-inattention). Using genetically informative models, we then tested for the first time whether the influence of household chaos on disruptive behavior was environmentally mediated and whether genetic influences on children's disruptive behaviors accounted for the heritability of household chaos. We measured children's perceptions of household chaos and parents' ratings of children's disruptive behavior at ages 9 and 12 in a sample of 6,286 twin pairs from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS). There was a phenotypic cross-lagged relation between children's experiences of household chaos and their disruptive behavior. In genetically informative models, we found that the effect of household chaos on subsequent disruptive behavior was environmentally mediated. However, genetic influences on disruptive behavior did not explain why household chaos was heritable.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children -- Social conditions, Behavior disorders in children | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Science | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1467-9280 | ||||||||
Official Date: | June 2012 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 23 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 6 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 643-650 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0956797611431693 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||||
Funder: | Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC), National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH), Wellcome Trust (London, England) | ||||||||
Grant number: | G0901245 (MRC), HD44454 (NIH), WT088984 (WT) |
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