Article
Environmental contributions to adolescent delinquency: a fresh look at the shared environment.
Journal of abnormal child psychology - 1 Oct 2007
Burt S Alexandra, McGue Matt, Krueger Robert F, Iacono William G
Abstract excerpt
Few genetically-informative studies have attempted to explicitly identify the shared environmental (i.e., those environmental influences that contribute to sibling similarity) factors now known to contribute to adolescent delinquency. The current study therefore examined whether the parent-child relationship served as one source of these shared environmental influences. Participants were 610 adoptive and...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adoption
- Child
- Female
- Genetics, Behavioral
- Humans
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Likelihood Functions
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Minnesota
- Models, Psychological
- Multivariate Analysis
- Parent-Child Relations
- Phenotype
- Siblings
- Social Environment