Family unit Environment

Family unit surroundings, peer relationships and loneliness, cognitive development, temperament (specifically behavioral inhibition), shyness, early zipper, and social skill deficits all are cited as factors that can contribute to social anxiety disorder.

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Cess with Belatedly-Life Families: Issues and Instruments

Brian D. Carpenter , Elizabeth A. Mulligan , in Handbook of Assessment in Clinical Gerontology (Second Edition), 2010

Family Environment Calibration

The Family unit Surroundings Calibration (FES; Moos & Moos, 1994) was developed from an interactionist framework with the purpose of describing the social surroundings of the family. Equally such, although the constructs tapped by the FES overlap with some of those in other instruments, the underlying focus of the FES is on how family members relate to and behave with ane another, all within the larger social context. Families are assessed on 3 dimensions, within which there are a number of subscales: relationship (cohesion, expressiveness, and conflict subscales); personal growth (independence, achievement orientation, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation, and moral-religious emphasis); system maintenance (organization and control). In addition to the long form of the FES, other forms enable assessment of perceptions of the electric current (real form), wished for (ideal form), and expected (expectations form) family. A short course besides exists as a subset of items from each subscale. An even briefer form, the Family unit Relationships Index (Friday), includes but three subscales (cohesiveness, expressiveness, and disharmonize).

The FES provides a comprehensive family unit assessment that is quite different in terms of some aspects of its content than the other instruments in this department. For example, its attention to involvement in political and cultural appointment places the family squarely in a larger social context, which may exist valuable information when working with late-life families. Withal, employ of the instrument with belatedly-life families and diverse families has been limited. Another disadvantage is the instrument's relative length, although users could isolate specific subscales of interest. Moreover, in recent years there has been some debate virtually the reliability of some subscales, mayhap highlighting the measurement error inherent in true/false items. This has been specially true in research with families from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, e.1000., Puerto Ricans, Vietnamese (Munet-Vilaro & Egan, 1990). In addition, although gene analytic studies have consistently found 2–3 solutions, these factors accept not usually mapped onto the 3 dimensions proposed by the scale's authors. Therefore, for researchers using the FES information technology is important to summate and report reliability indices for each sample and to consider how unstable validity might impact associations with other dependent and independent variables. Too, clinicians may need to keep in mind how low reliability and validity might cloud interpretation and prediction.

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Psychosocial Resources

Shelley E. Taylor , Joelle I. Broffman , in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2011

three.1.1 Socioeconomic status

In add-on to the family environment, there are other aspects of the early life environment that confer risk for poor psychosocial resources and long-term adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Chief among these factors is low babyhood SES.

In that location are well-established socioeconomic and racial disparities in mental and physical health outcomes, such that the higher one moves on the SES ladder, the lower one's risk for psychological distress and for adverse wellness outcomes (Adler & Rehkopf, 2008). The relation is, for the well-nigh function, linear rather than asymptotic, which means that each stride upwardly the ladder brings increased resistance to psychological distress, to illness, and to premature bloodshed. Psychosocial resources are a likely contributor to these disparities.

Early childhood SES is believed to exist a pivotal context for the development of psychosocial resources. Enquiry indicates that low childhood SES is tied to perceptions of little control, pessimism, and poor social support, factors that may link SES to poor wellness (Adler et al., 1999; Finkelstein, Kubzansky, Capitman, & Goodman, 2007; Gallo, de los Monteros, & Shivpuri, 2009; Repetti et al., 2002; Taylor & Seeman, 1999). For example, there is an SES gradient in pessimism (but not optimism) (Taylor & Seeman, 1999), suggesting that harsh early life experiences contribute to the evolution of enduring pessimistic expectations (Carver et al., 2010). Amidst low-SES individuals who practice have potent behavior in personal mastery, mental and physical health outcomes are equivalent to those seen in high-SES groups (Lachman & Weaver, 1998). To a lesser extent, self-esteem shows an SES gradient (Adler et al., 1999). Perceived social support demonstrates a potent SES gradient, such that those of higher SES in childhood and/or adulthood report greater social support resources (Kessler et al., 1992). SES too links to coping style. In ane study, exposure to uncontrollable stressors was associated with greater avoidant coping in impoverished women, which was, in turn, associated with an enhanced risk for depression (Rayburn et al., 2005). Lack of social support, which is distributed by SES, likewise can prompt avoidance oriented coping under stress (Manning, Catley, Harris, Mayo, & Ahluwalia, 2005).

Matthews and colleagues (Gallo, Bogart, Vranceanu, & Matthews, 2005; Gallo & Matthews, 2003) take proposed a Reserve Capacity Model, maintaining that psychosocial resources are significantly associated with SES level, such that the higher i is in SES, the greater i's "reserve capacity" to deal with stressful events. In an empirical test of these ideas, women with varying levels of SES monitored their positive and negative psychosocial experiences and emotions beyond two days. Measures of psychosocial resources included perceived control, positive bear upon, and social strain. Low SES was associated with lower levels of these resources, and low perceived control and social strain contributed to the association between SES and well-being (Gallo et al., 2005, 2009; Matthews, Gallo, & Taylor, 2010). Resources appear to play a part of direct mediation as opposed to moderation (Matthews et al., 2010). Indeed, the bear witness for the importance of psychosocial resources as a mediator of the effect of low SES on poor health is stronger than the evidence suggesting that stress mediates this relation (Matthews et al., 2010).

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Family unit Relationships and Children's Stress Responses

Rachel G. Lucas-Thompson , Wendy A. Goldberg , in Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 2011

C Mechanisms

How can stress levels in early family environments touch on wellness years after? One mechanism rests on the bear upon of adverse family atmospheric condition on parenting. Economic stress has been linked to deteriorated quality of parenting that includes high conflict, negative and restrictive parenting styles, or chaotic and neglectful parenting ( Emery & Laumann-Billings, 1998; McLoyd, 1998). The influence of chronic exposure on both harsh parenting practices and cumulative family risks places children at risk for heightened stress responses (Larson, Russ, Crall, & Halfon, 2008) and emotional dysregulation (Repetti et al., 2002).

Also, the stressful conditions of low family unit income and depression parental didactics tin can hateful that children practice not have access to quality health care or good wellness habits. Children from low-income families, for example, are more likely to accept exposure to higher levels of lead, an ecology blood toxin, which has been shown to mediate the association between low family income and greater cortisol levels post-obit laboratory stress tasks (Gump et al., 2007).

Additional important mechanisms are negative emotionality (Lehman et al., 2005) and self-regulating abilities that link childhood family relationships to long-term vulnerability to stress-related illnesses. Repetti et al. (2002) argue that harsh family environments compromise emotional and social functioning and in this fashion, negatively touch on health outcomes. In contrast, high parental warmth tin can buffer adolescents from the negative furnishings of stress on cortisol levels (Evans et al., 2007). Finally, there is the factor of genetic endowment. Shared genes amid members of the aforementioned family may predispose parents to behave in ways that "are consistent with risky family environments and that brand children more reactive to stress" (Hanson & Chen, 2010, p. 400).

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Genes and Individual Differences

James R. Flynn , in Intelligence and Human being Progress, 2013

v.2.4 What is the Planet'southward Proper name?

There is no real alternative to citing family unit environment as the main distorting influence but in that location is an ambiguity. In that location are three components that touch on the variance between the IQs of individuals: genes, family surroundings (oft called common surroundings), and electric current environment (often called uncommon environment).

Genes would exist merely a small distortion and if anything, would cause a small underestimate of the pull of family unit environment. The notion that children far above the median for vocabulary should benefit from a greater and greater reward for genes as they age is not plausible. Merely at that place might exist a small negative effect. As the handicap they endure from an unfavorable family environment fades, they might need slightly less elevated genes to attain such a skilful vocabulary.

Every bit we have seen, electric current surround has a lot to do with the bad or skilful luck no one can protect people from. No doubt, those that score high on vocabulary at whatsoever age bask better luck than the average person. Only the question is whether this advantage would rise or fall with age. If and so, it would hateful something similar: high performers accept a certain balance in terms of favor of good over bad teachers at 6; high performers would see that residual modify for better or worse in terms of fewer or more teenage traumas at sixteen; and high performers would see it change again in terms of more rather than less unemployment at 26. If this were truthful, you lot would expect that twin or kinship studies would show that the percentage (of IQ variance) current environment explains would alter from age to age. In fact, kinship studies show that uncommon environs is steady at nearly 25% at all ages (Haworth et al., 2010; Jensen, 1998).

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ICD-11—Comparison With DSM-5 and Implications for Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders

M.E. Garralda , in Positive Mental Wellness, Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency for Children and Adolescents, 2016

The Importance of Generic Psychosocial Influences for Child and Boyish Mental Health

The undeniable function of dysfunctional psychosocial, family, and schoolhouse environments for the development and/or maintenance of kid psychiatric disorders has strongly influenced how problems have been viewed and managed in CAMHS and the employ of generic over disorder-specific treatments. Some children, for example, are presented with difficulties involving stress in parent–child relationships without necessarily existence linked to mental health problems in the child (Carrey & Gregson, 2008). Expertise in CAMHS has frequently focused on techniques to reduce stress, convey therapeutic empathy and understanding to the child, and improve parenting techniques and family relationships. These techniques in expert hands can be beneficial for children with whatsoever blazon and level of difficulty, in the same way that antipyretics are helpful for many types of febrile affliction, or advice and expert help to engage in a salubrious lifestyle for many different types of concrete disorders. Some of these trans-diagnostic techniques volition remain important and helpful.

Nevertheless, diagnosis of private disorders as described in ICD and DSM has been fundamental to empirical evaluations of both psychotherapeutic and medical treatments for child and boyish mental health problems. Specific disorder-based treatments include certain kinds of family unit therapy for anorexia nervosa, parenting work for conduct disorders, cerebral behavioral therapies for mood disorders, specific medications for ADHD, schizophrenia, or other psychotic states, and for anxiety and depressive disorders. Increasingly specialist diagnostic and handling CAMHS are being developed for disorders such as autism, ADHD, mood disorders, and obsessive compulsive disorder, and pediatric liaison services for children with joint medical and psychiatric problems. Bodies such as NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) in the Uk—which aims to help practitioners deliver the best possible care for concrete and mental disorders, to provide the most constructive treatments based on the well-nigh upward-to-date evidence, and provide value for coin—have published guidelines on a number of diagnosis-based child psychiatric disorders (https://www.squeamish.org.uk).

Nonetheless, information technology is well-established that in child psychiatric exercise, specific techniques volition ofttimes need to be complemented by trans-diagnostic interventions equally mentioned higher up.

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Beyond Sally's Missing Marble

Kristin Hansen Lagattuta , ... Sarah Tashjian , in Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 2015

iii.2 Parent–Kid Interactions

Another highly researched expanse on individual differences in ToM concerns how young children's family environment may contribute to their emerging psychological understanding. In particular, the quality of children's attachment to caregivers and the frequency that children engage in causal-explanatory talk most mental states and emotions accept been implicated as important factors. Several studies take found concurrent besides every bit longitudinal associations betwixt attachment security and ToM in ii- to half dozen-year-olds ( de Rosnay & Harris, 2002; Fonagy, Redfern, & Charman, 1997; Laible & Thompson, 1998; Meins, Fernyhough, Russell, & Clark-Carter, 1998; Repacholi & Trapolini, 2004; Steele, Steele, Croft, & Fonagy, 1999). Longitudinal and cross-exclusive studies accept further documented significant relations between parent–child soapbox near mental states and preschoolers' reasoning about beliefs and emotions (see Hughes, White, & Ensor, 2014 for a review). In that location is also mounting prove that attachment security and parent–child discourse interconnect: More secure dyads non merely accept more than frequent mentalistic conversations, but parent–child discourse quality mediates the relation betwixt zipper and ToM (Mcquaid, Bigelow, McLaughlin, & MacLean, 2008; Meins et al., 2002; Ontai & Thompson, 2008; Raikes & Thompson, 2006).

The question remains whether these same variables continue to predict more advanced ToM in middle babyhood and beyond. Researchers examining relations betwixt mental state language and ToM in half-dozen- to 10-yr-olds have institute no significant association between children's production of mental state terms and their performance on second-order simulated-belief tasks (Charman & Shmueli-Goetz, 1998; Longobardi, Spataro, & Renna, 2014; Meins, Fernyhough, Johnson, & Lidstone, 2006). Relations proceed to exist, however, between older children's comprehension of the meaning of different mental state terms (metalinguistic noesis) and their operation on advanced ToM (Grazzani & Ornaghi, 2012; Longobardi et al., 2014); possibly not surprising considering metalinguistic awareness is a direct mensurate of ToM. These data indicate that parent–kid conversations about mental states may be more critical for early acquisition of ToM, simply less of import once certain ToM levels accept been mastered. Future research is needed to make a more than definitive determination.

Research on parent–child attachment in middle babyhood has primarily focused on how zipper security predicts peer human relationship quality and mental health (Kerns & Brumariu, 2014; Kerns & Richardson, 2005) rather than whether it predicts children'south reasoning about mental states and emotions. Notwithstanding, mental models of zipper relationships are presumed to contain thoughts, emotions, and behavior about the self and others, stemming from early experiences with caregivers (Bowlby, 1973), a very ToM-like construct. Whereas attachment quality may predict children'southward ability to pass tasks measuring belief and emotion knowledge in early babyhood (as discussed previously), in middle childhood and subsequently in life, zipper quality may instead predict nuances in ToM. That is, children and adults may utilise attachment relationships, whether secure or insecure, as a heuristic for predicting and explaining social behaviors and relationships. In our enquiry, for example, nosotros are investigating whether attachment security predicts how 4- to 12-year-olds and adults differentially weight social bear witness (i.due east., focus more than on negative versus positive actions) to brand future-oriented judgments nearly mental states and emotions. Potentially, older children and adults with insecure attachment may showroom more pronounced negativity biases than securely attached individuals.

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Nature and Nurture Furnishings On Children's Outcomes

Bruce Sacerdote , in Handbook of Social Economics, 2011

III Canonical Results from the Behavioral Genetics Literature

As noted earlier, the most voluminous and heavily cited part of the BG literature measures the contributions of genes and family environment to IQ. There are numerous summaries of this IQ literature including Goldberger [1977], Bouchard and McGue [1981], Devlin et al. [1994], Jencks et al. [1972], and Taylor [1980]. Table I shows the mean of the estimated correlations in each of these meta-studies along with the number of individual studies incorporated.

Table I. Correlations in IQ between siblings, adoptive siblings, and identical twins

Meta study authors Number of studies considered Correlation for siblings raised together (non-adoptive, non identical twins) Correlation for adoptive sibs Correlation for identical twins Correlation for congenial twins
Devlin, Daniels and Roeder (1994) 212 0.44 0.85
Bouchard and McGue (1981) 69 0.45 0.29 0.85
Golberger (1977) 7 0.51 0.31 0.91
Jencks et al. (1972) 18 0.54 0.42 0.86 0.58

The table reports results from four surveys of the IQ literature and incorporate hundreds of private studies of twin and adoptee samples.

Data for Jencks et al. are every bit summarized past Taylor [1980] p. 46.

Devlin, Daniels, and Roeder reviewed 212 unlike studies of the IQ of twins. The mean correlation in IQ for studies of pairs of identical twins was .85. The correlations for fraternal twins were like to correlations for other siblings and averaged .44. 1 tin meet immediately that in a simple model this will generate a high estimated heritability; if i assumes that identical twins are twice as genetically related as other full siblings are and have twice the correlation in outcomes, equations (five) and (6) would pb one to conclude that all of the explained variance is genetic. Goldberger (1977) and Jencks et al. [1972] each reviewed a number of twin studies of IQ. The studies they review yielded like results. In the case of Jencks [1972], the correlation in IQ for identical twins is .86 versus .54 for other siblings.

Bouchard and McGue [1981] examined a large number of twin studies and adoption studies. The adoption studies find significant correlation in IQ between adoptive siblings. The median correlation in IQ for adoptive siblings is .29 while the correlation for biological siblings raised together is .45. However, many of these studies are for adoptees less than age xviii. Studies of older adoptive and biological siblings have plant that the correlation in IQ amid adoptees tends to fall significantly in adulthood while the correlation for biological siblings grows. Plomin et al. [1997, 2001].

Table 2 translates these sibling correlations into the behavioral genetics decomposition of variance in IQ into portions attributable to variance in genes, family unit (common) environs and separate environment. The twin designs find that a loftier proportion of explained variance in IQ is due to genes, and very footling is due to family environment. Averaging over more than 200 studies, Devlin et al. show the average finding is that 49% of the variance is genetic and 5% is attributable to family (mutual) environment. The Bouchard and McGue summary of correlations for twins finds similar results, namely that 54% of variation is genetic and iv% is due to family unit environment. Non-shared surroundings (what economists would call the residual or unexplained variance) accounts for a substantial forty–50% of the variation in IQ.

Tabular array Two. IQ Results: Implied variance decomposition from the behavioral genetics model

Meta Studies Variance attributable to condiment genetic effects Variance attributable to not-condiment genetic effects Total genetic Variance attributable to common environs Non-shared surroundings
Devlin, Daniels and Roeder (1994) 0.34 0.fifteen 0.49 0.05 0.46
Golberger (1977) 0.47 0.11 0.58 0.22 0.20
Bouchard and McGue (1981) MZ vs DZ Twins* 0.54 0.04 0.42
Bouchard and McGue (1981) Adoptees* 0.32 0.29 0.39
Individual Studies
Cherny and Cardon (1994) (For 9 year sometime Adoptees and Sibs) 0.60 0.16 0.24
*
Bouchard and McGue practise not calculate estimates of heritability from the sibling correlations they aggregate. Loehlin (1989) does this adding using the Bouchard and McGue aggregates does not dissever ecology furnishings into common (family) and non-shared. I calculated these using the unproblematic version of the BG model in equations (iv) and (5).

The adoption studies discover a larger proportion of variance in IQ owing to family environment. Cardon and Cherny's [1994] exam of 9-year-olds in the Colorado Adoption Projection institute that sixteen% of the variation in IQ is owing to family environment, and 60% is due to genes. The Bouchard and McGue summary of IQ correlations for adoptees implies that 29% of the variation is due family unit environment and 32% is due to genes. Averaging over the studies in Goldberger'southward [1977] literature summary, which includes both twin and adoption correlations, I discover that 22% of the variation in IQ is due to family environs and 58% is due to genetic effects.

In that location is a disconnect betwixt the twin and adoption literatures with regard to the importance of family unit environs. One manner to resolve this contradiction is to appeal to the findings that family environs effects on adoptees are greatly attenuated in machismo and that heritability rises with age (Pedersen et al. [1992] and McClearn et al. [1997]). However, another reasonable caption is that applying the simple version of the behavioral genetics model to pairs of identical and fraternal twins will overstate heritability if identical twins face environments more than like than that faced for other siblings (Feldman and Otto [1997].) 6 Or, identical twins might affect each other's environs more than do fraternal twins. Think from Section II that whatsoever factors which make outcomes for identical twins more like than outcomes for congenial twins are assigned to genetic effects. The supposition of the structural model is that sibling pairs raised in the same household have the aforementioned correlation in family or common surround. One could imagine that parents and teachers would be even more probable to expect or demand similar performance from siblings who are identical twins. Parents may be more probable to provide similar environmental experiences for identical twins. In decomposing sources of earnings variation, Björkland Jäntii and Solon [2005] detect that allowing unlike types of sibling pairs to take dissimilar amounts of correlation in family environment greatly lowers the estimated heritability and raises the estimated impacts from family unit environment.

In Table III, I summarize the existing behavioral genetics studies of variance in years of instruction. There are far fewer BG studies of education and earnings than of IQ, and the most widely known studies are those done by economists and sociologists. Behrman and Taubman [1989] use information on twins and their relatives from the National Academy of Science/National Research Council sample. They compute years of schooling correlations for xvi different pairs of relatives and fit the parameters of their model to match the predicted correlations with the sample correlations. Consistent with twin studies of IQ that find high heritability, Behrman and Taubman find that genetic effects explain 88% of the variation in schooling. seven Family environment explains piddling or none of the variance in schooling. Scarr and Weinberg [1994] examine adoptees and notice that family environment explains 13% of the variation. However, this study is based on simply 59 adoptive sibling pairs. Teasdale and Owen [1984] accept 163 pairs of adoptees and notice that variance family environment explains five% of the variation in schooling.

Table 3. Years of education: Implied variance decomposition from the behavioral genetics model

Authors and sample Variance owing to condiment genetic effects Variance attributable to non-condiment genetic effects Full genetic Variance owing to common environment Non-shared environment
Behrman and Taubman (1989) 2,000 twins pairs and their relatives NAS-NRC sample 0.88 (.002) −0.01 (.047) 0.88
Scarr and Weinberg (1994) 59 adoptive sibling pairs and 105 nonadoptive sibling pairs 0.38 0.13 0.49
Teasdale and Owen (1984) 163 pairs of adoptees from Danish National Annals 0.678 0.678 0.052 0.270
Behrman, Taubman, and Wales (1977) 2,478 MZ and DZ Twins in the NAS-NRC sample 0.36 0.41 0.23

Scarr and Weinberg (1994) report adoptive and biological sibling correlations. I used equations (4) and (5) to translate this into the decomposition unsaid by the simplest grade of the BG model. Teasdale and Owen report their results in variance of years of education explained by condiment genes, mutual environment and dissever environment. I calculated the fractions explained by each factor. The NAS-NRC sample is a National Academy of Science - National Inquiry Council survey of twins performed in 1974.

Overall, to the extent that behavioral geneticists take performed nature-nurture decompositions using years of schooling as the outcome, the findings have mirrored the findings of the much larger IQ literature. Genetic effects play a large office, while in that location is only a pocket-size role for family environs. That statement is tempered a bit by the Behrman, Taubman, and Wales written report, and Scarr and Weinberg written report, though that written report had only 59 pairs of adoptive siblings. A dissimilar but equally valid estimation of the results in Tabular array III would be to say genetic effects clearly matter a great bargain in determining schooling, but that the portion attributable to family environment changes significantly depending on how 1 specifies the structural model.

In Tabular array IV, I switch the outcome of interest to earnings and I study results from ii different studies. Björkland, Jäntti, and Solon [2005] used a large sample of siblings, twins and adoptees from the Statistics Sweden and Swedish Twin Registry. They derive formulae for the predicted correlations among 9 different sibling types. They use weighted to the lowest degree squares to choose parameters to fit best the sample correlations to the predicted correlations from the models. One of the primal results from this study is that information technology matters a slap-up bargain whether or not i constrains all sibling types reared together to accept the same caste of correlation in family (common) environment. With such a constraint (Model 1), genes explain 28% of the variance in earnings and family environment explains four%. 8 Past adding iii boosted parameters to permit for differing correlations in family surround among sibling pairs (Model 4), the importance of family (common) surround rises to sixteen.4% and the genetic furnishings fall to 19.nine%.

Table IV. Earnings: Implied variance decomposition from the behavioral genetics model

Authors and sample Variance attributable genetic furnishings Variance attributable to common environment Variance attributable to non-shared environment
Björklund, Jäntti and Solon (2005) Model i Swedish Brothers Including Raised Apart, Together, Twins, Adoptees, One-half Sibs .281 (.080) 0.038 (0.037) 0.681
Björklund, Jäntti and Solon (2005) Model 1 Swedish Sisters Including Raised Autonomously, Together, Twins, Adoptees, Half Sibs .245 (.080) 0.009 (0.037) 0.746
Björklund, Jäntti and Solon (2005) Model 4 Swedish Brothers Including Raised Apart, Together, Twins, Adoptees, One-half Sibs 0.199 (0.157) 0.164 (0.158) 0.637
Behrman, Taubman, and Wales (1975) 0.45 0.13 −0.42

Björklund, Jäntti and Solon estimates the BG parameters to fit the ix sibling correlations in the data from ix sibling types (MZ raised together, MZ apart, DZ together, DZ apart, Full sibs together, total sibs apart, one-half sibs together, one-half sibs apart, adoptive sibs). The difference betwixt models ane and 4 is that model 4 adds parameters to allow for different degrees of environmental correlation among different types of sibling pairs.

Table V shows the results from Loehlin's [2005] summary of the behavioral genetics literature on the determinants of personality traits. Like the IQ inquiry, this is a rich literature and Loehlin considers hundreds of studies. He reports average correlations between parents and children for the most commonly measured aspects of personality, namely extraversion, conjuration, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. With regard to the determinants of personality traits, the literature has reached even more of a consensus than with regard to IQ. The first cavalcade is for the correlations between parents and children when their biological parents raise children. Correlations range from .11 to .17. When nosotros consider adoptees and adoptive parents in column two, the correlations almost disappear, falling to an average of .036. Cavalcade iii reports correlations in traits for adoptees and their biological parents. Hither the correlations ascension almost to the levels seen in cavalcade (1), that is, for the children raised by their biological parents. This prove (which again is a summary of hundreds of studies) is striking and certainly points strongly in the management of genes being an important determinant of personality traits.

Table 5. Behavioral genetics results on personality traits meta study of correlations between parents and children

Parent child relationship
Biological and social Social, not biological Biological, non social
Dimension
Extraversion 0.14
(117, .010)		 0.03
(forty, .011)		 0.sixteen
(15, .019)
Agreeableness 0.eleven
(65, .013)		 0.01
(16, .021)		 0.14
(iii, .067)
Conscientiousness 0.09
(64, .013)		 0.02
(26, .012)		 0.11
(ii, .110)
Neuroticism 0.13
(131, .010)		 0.05
(40, .011)		 0.11
(21, .022)
Openness 0.17
(24, .028)		 0.07
(12, .031)		 0.14
(1 - )

This is a summary of the literature on personality traits and is reprinted exactly from Loehlin (2005) Table 6.three. Number of correlations that were averaged and the implied standard errors are in parentheses.

More than recently, economists and other social scientists have begun to gauge the heritability of parameters that are central to economic models of human behavior. For case, Cesarini et al. [2009] and Cesarini et al. [forthcoming] use twins data to approximate the heritability of preferences for risk taking and for fairness. In both cases the authors find substantial genetic influences and only a small role for shared environs.

As a final result of involvement, I graph in Figure I some of the data from the Grilo and Pogue-Geile [1991] meta study of correlations in weight, meridian and body mass alphabetize among full siblings raised together, adoptive siblings, and twins. Adoptive siblings have near no correlation in torso mass index. Full siblings raised together have a correlation of almost .32. Interestingly fraternal twins show similar levels of correlation to other sibling pairs. The correlation in BMI jumps to .72 for identical twins. nine

Figure I. Correlations in Body Mass Alphabetize For Four Types of Sibling Pairs

 Data are from meta-study done past Grilo and Pogue-Geile [1991]. Numbers for adoptive siblings add results from Sacerdote [2007] since Grilo and Pogue Geile have only ane written report with BMI figures. All calculations include same and mixed gender pairs.

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Healthcare

S. Russ , ... N. Halfon , in Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Babyhood Evolution, 2008

Life course models

Bear witness is accumulating from longitudinal cohort studies that early on childhood wellness indicators, such equally birthweight, and family unit and social environments are strongly linked with after health and mental health outcomes. Starting with the pioneering work of David Barker on associations between birthweight and mid-life cardiovascular illness, the concept of developmental origins of developed disease (the and then-called Barker hypothesis) has gained credence. There is now besides growing evidence that events and experiences in early childhood tin accept a profound consequence on later adult health. For instance, exposure to abuse and family dysfunction in babyhood has been associated with higher prevalence and severity of adult disease and mental illness. These findings underscore the need for healthcare in childhood to consider carefully family unit and ecology influences on a young child's development, and the importance of optimizing wellness across all its dimensions in the early on years for time to come well-being and longevity.

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Booze, Sexual Risk Taking, and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Melissa A. Lewis , ... Dana Litt , in Principles of Addiction, 2013

Social Influences

Several commonly best-selling social influences on the association between alcohol use and sexual beliefs include the role of peers, family environment, modeling, and perceived social norms. These influences are idea to brainstorm early in life and modify across the life grade. During boyhood, the part of peers becomes increasingly important as teenagers spend more time together, develop more than intimate relationships, and begin experimenting in romantic relationships. In addition, the time between adolescence and young adulthood (sometimes referred to every bit emerging adulthood taking place betwixt 18 and 25 years of age) is characterized as a period of exploration. Substance apply peaks in the early twenties, and the majority of young adults (62% of males and 70% of females) are sexually active earlier historic period xviii.

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Anxiety Disorder in Children

C.L. Donovan , S.H. Spence , in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001

2.3 Parenting Characteristics

The stiff family links plant in childhood feet could also be explained to some degree by parental behavior and the family environments in which the children are brought up. Parenting behavior has been suggested to bear on upon kid anxiety in a number of ways. From a learning theory perspective, certain forms of parenting behavior may increment the probability that children learn to answer in an anxious manner and fail to acquire the skills needed to cope with the inevitable stressful events that occur during children's lives. Observational studies have demonstrated that parents of broken-hearted children are more probable to model, prompt, and reinforce anxious beliefs, such as avoidance and distress in stressful situations. Furthermore, parents of anxious children are more probable to draw their children's attending to the threatening aspects of situations and less likely to encourage 'dauntless' solutions (Rapee in printing).

The parents of anxious children are likewise more likely to engage in behaviors that make it less probable that children will learn how to solve stressful issues themselves. Empirical enquiry has found that parents of anxious children demonstrate higher levels of overcontrolling and overprotective behaviors that disrupt coping skills development. Equally a grouping, they are also more likely to exist critical of their kid'due south coping attempts, thereby reducing children's confidence in their abilities to solve their ain life bug (Dumas, La Freniere and Serketich 1995, Krohne and Hock 1991). These parenting styles may interact with babyhood temperament in explaining why some behaviorally inhibited children develop feet issues and some do not. For case, parental overprotection and overcontrol appears to be influential in determining the stability of behavioral inhibition in children (Hirshfeld et al. 1997a, 1997b). Parental behavior has besides been found to exist of import in determining the touch on of traumatic life events upon childhood psychopathology. Following trauma, children are more likely to develop emotional and behavioral difficulties if their parents react in an overprotective manner after the upshot (e.one thousand., McFarlane 1987).

It is also important to consider that children have an influence upon parents, and anxious child behavior may cause parents to acquit in particular ways. In much of the literature to appointment, it is not articulate whether the overprotective behaviors of parents are definitely a cause of childhood anxiety or whether they could be a consequence of living with an anxious kid. Hereafter enquiry needs to analyze these relationships.

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