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Negative emotionality and externalizing problems in toddlerhood: overreactive parenting as a moderator of genetic influences.
Development and psychopathology - 1 Feb 2012
Lipscomb Shannon T, Leve Leslie D, Shaw Daniel S, Neiderhiser Jenae M, Scaramella Laura V, Ge Xiaojia, Conger Rand D, Reid John B, Reiss David
Abstract excerpt
The current study examines the interplay between parental overreactivity and children's genetic backgrounds as inferred from birth parent characteristics on the development of negative emotionality during infancy, and in turn, to individual differences in externalizing problems in toddlerhood. The sample included 361 families linked through adoption (birth parents and adoptive families). Data were collected when...
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