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Linkages between children's and their friends' social and physical aggression: evidence for a gene-environment interaction?

Child development - 1 Jan 2000

Brendgen Mara, Boivin Michel, Vitaro Frank, Bukowski William M, Dionne Ginette, Tremblay Richard E, Pérusse Daniel

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Based on a sample of 406 seven-year-old twins, this study examined whether exposure to friends' social or physical aggression, respectively, moderates the effect of heritability on children's own social and physical aggression. Univariate analyses showed that children's own social and physical aggression were significantly explained by genetic factors, whereas friends' social and physical aggression represented...

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PMID: 18269506
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01108.x

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