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Genetic and environmental contributions to loneliness in children.

Psychological science - 1 Nov 2000

McGuire S, Clifford J

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This report presents the results of the first behavioral genetic studies of children's loneliness. Data were collected using both an adoption design and a twin-sibling design. As part of the Colorado Adoption Project, 133 sibling pairs (69 biologically related pairs and 64 unrelated pairs in adoptive families) completed a general loneliness scale when they were 9, 10, 11, and 12 years old. As part of the San...

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PMID: 11202494
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00293

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