Article
Differential susceptibility in youth: evidence that 5-HTTLPR x positive parenting is associated with positive affect 'for better and worse'.
Translational psychiatry - 4 Oct 2011
Hankin B L, Nederhof E, Oppenheimer C W, Jenness J, Young J F, Abela J R Z, Smolen A, Ormel J, Oldehinkel A J
Abstract excerpt
Positive affect has been implicated in the phenomenological experience of various psychiatric disorders, vulnerability to develop psychopathology and overall socio-emotional functioning. However, developmental influences that may contribute to positive affect have been understudied. Here, we studied youths' 5-HTTLPR genotype and rearing environment (degree of positive and supportive parenting) to investigate the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Affect
- Alleles
- Child
- Cohort Studies
- Female
- Gene-Environment Interaction
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Parent-Child Relations
- Parenting