Environmental Contributions to Adolescent Delinquency: a Fresh Look at the Shared Environment

Overview

Journal J Abnorm Child Psychol

Publisher Springer

Date 2007 May 17

PMID 17505878

Citations 29

Authors

S Alexandra Burt

Matt McGue

Robert F Krueger

William G Iacono

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Abstract

Few genetically-informative studies have attempted to explicitly identify the shared environmental (i.e., those environmental influences that contribute to sibling similarity) factors now known to contribute to adolescent delinquency. The current study therefore examined whether the parent-child relationship served as one source of these shared environmental influences. Participants were 610 adoptive and biological families from the Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS). Parents and adolescents reported on their parent-child conflict and parental involvement with child, and adolescents reported on their own delinquent behaviors. We employed structural equation modeling and supplementary multilevel modeling, finding consistent evidence that the association between delinquency and the parent-child relationship is at least partially shared environmental in origin. Such findings provide an important extension of previous twin studies, as they suggest that passive genotype-environment correlations do not explain earlier findings of shared environmental influences on this association.

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