Journal article
Biology-Environment Interaction and Evocative Biology-Environment Correlation: Contributions of Harsh Discipline and Parental Psychopathology to Problem Adolescent Behaviors
Behavior genetics, Vol.33(3), pp.205-220
05/2003
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023434206261
PMID: 12837013
Abstract
Using an adoption paradigm, the Bioecological Model of development proposed by Bronfenbrenner and Ceci in 1994 was tested by concurrently modeling for biology-environment interaction and evocative biology-environment correlation. A sample of 150 adult adoptees (ages, 18–45 years) provided retrospective reports of harsh adoptive parent discipline, which served as the environmental independent variables. Birth parent psychopathology served as the biological predictor. The dependent variables were retrospective adoptee and adoptive parent reports on adolescent aggressive and conduct-disordered behaviors. Finally, adoptees were classified as experiencing contextual environmental risk using the presence of two or more adverse factors in the adoptive home (e.g., adoptive parent psychopathology) as the cutoff. The contextual environment was found to moderate the biological process of evocative biology-environment correlation, providing empirical support for the Bronfenbrenner and Ceci (1994) Bioecological Model.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Biology-Environment Interaction and Evocative Biology-Environment Correlation: Contributions of Harsh Discipline and Parental Psychopathology to Problem Adolescent Behaviors
- Creators
- Kristin Riggins-CaspersRemi CadoretJohn KnutsonDouglas Langbehn
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Behavior genetics, Vol.33(3), pp.205-220
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1023434206261
- PMID
- 12837013
- NLM abbreviation
- Behav Genet
- ISSN
- 0001-8244
- eISSN
- 1573-3297
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2003
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Epidemiology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003480102771
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