The role of child negative emotionality in parenting and child adjustment: Gene-environment interplay.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE) describes a process through which children's heritable characteristics influence their rearing environments. The current study examined whether heritable influences on parenting and children's behavioural outcomes operate through child negative emotionality.

Method

Using data from the Early Growth and Development Study, we examined associations among adoptive parent reports of child anger and sadness at 4.5 years, adoptive parents' hostile and warm parenting at 6 years and child behavioural problems and social competence at age 7. Birth parent temperament was included to test whether child effects on parents reflect evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE).

Results

Child anger at 4.5 years evoked hostile pare

SUBMITTER: Shewark EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8492791 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature