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How Heritable are Parental Sensitivity and Limit-Setting? A Longitudinal Child-Based Twin Study on Observed Parenting.

ABSTRACT: We examined the relative contribution of genetic, shared environmental and non-shared environmental factors to the covariance between parental sensitivity and limit-setting observed twice in a longitudinal study using a child-based twin design. Parental sensitivity and parental limit-setting were observed in 236 parents with each of their same-sex toddler twin children (M_age = 3.8 years; 58% monozygotic). Bivariate behavioral genetic models indicated substantial effects of similar shared environmental factors on parental sensitivity and limit-setting and on the overlap within sensitivity and limit-setting across 1 year. Moderate child-driven genetic effects were found for parental limit-setting in year 1 and across 1 year. Genetic child factors contributing to explaining the variance in limit-setting over time were the same, whereas shared environmental factors showed some overlap.

SUBMITTER: Euser S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7754341 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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How Heritable are Parental Sensitivity and Limit-Setting? A Longitudinal Child-Based Twin Study on Observed Parenting.

Euser Saskia S Bosdriesz Jizzo R JR Vrijhof Claudia I CI van den Bulk Bianca G BG van Hees Debby D de Vet Sanne M SM van IJzendoorn Marinus H MH Bakermans-Kranenburg Marian J MJ

Child development 20200409 6

We examined the relative contribution of genetic, shared environmental and non-shared environmental factors to the covariance between parental sensitivity and limit-setting observed twice in a longitudinal study using a child-based twin design. Parental sensitivity and parental limit-setting were observed in 236 parents with each of their same-sex toddler twin children (M<sub>age</sub> = 3.8 years; 58% monozygotic). Bivariate behavioral genetic models indicated substantial effects of similar sh ...[more]

PMID: 32270875

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How Heritable are Parental Sensitivity and Limit-Setting? A Longitudinal Child-Based Twin Study on Observed Parenting.

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How Heritable are Parental Sensitivity and Limit-Setting? A Longitudinal Child-Based Twin Study on Observed Parenting.

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