Are associations between parental divorce and children's adjustment genetically mediated? An adoption study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9787945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas G O'Connor (0000-0002-8590-5057), Thomas G O’connor (0009-0000-4894-9002, Psychiatry Research Trust, corresponding author), Avshalom Caspi (0000-0003-0082-4600), John C Defries, Robert Plomin (0000-0002-0756-3629) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 429-437 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.36.4.429 |
| PMID | 10902695 |
| OpenAlex | W2126942587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 37 |
The hypothesis that the association between parental divorce and children's adjustment is mediated by genetic factors was examined in the Colorado Adoption Project, a prospective longitudinal study of 398 adoptive and biological families. In biological families, children who experienced their parents' separation by the age of 12 years exhibited higher rates of behavioral problems and substance use, and lower levels of achievement and social adjustment, compared with children whose parents' marriages remained intact. Similarly, adopted children who experienced their (adoptive) parents' divorces exhibited elevated levels of behavioral problems and substance use compared with adoptees whose parents did not separate, but there were no differences on achievement and social competence. The findings for psychopathology are consistent with an environmentally mediated explanation for the association between parent divorce and children's adjustment; in contrast, the findings for achievement and social adjustment are consistent with a genetically mediated explanation involving passive genotype-environment correlation
Association (psychology · Child rearing · Developmental psychology · Longitudinal study · Population · Psychopathology · Social change · Social competence · Social environment · Socioeconomic status · Child Welfare and Adoption · Clinical Psychology · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies
The development of psychopathology from infancy to adulthood
From correlates to causes
Doing Better for Children
The Impact of Family Formation Change on the Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Well-Being of the Next Generation
Divorce in Europe and the United States
Parental Divorce and Children's Adjustment
Children and Divorce
Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict and Children's behavior Problems
Can Family Socioeconomic Resources Account for Racial and Ethnic Test Score Gaps
Young Adults with Childhood Experience of Divorce
Parent and Child Similarities in Divorcing and Non-Divorcing Families
The hypotheses put forward in the Nurture Assumption inspired much needed research regarding the influence of parenting and peers, but were overstated
The role of family socioeconomic resources in the black–white test score gap among young children
Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance
Toward Nature With Nurture
Effects of Family Structure and the Experience of Parental Separation
Dimensional model on how familial vulnerability and environmental factors impact transitional age youth psychopathology
Relations entre l’état psychologique de la mère et l’état psychologique de l’enfant en contexte de séparation conjugale
Adoptive Family Divorce
Post-Adoption Support Groups
Experiences of separation and divorce among foster and adoptive families
Kin adopting kin
A genetically informed study of associations between family functioning and child psychosocial adjustment
Parental divorce and adolescent delinquency
A genetically informed study of the processes underlying the association between parental marital instability and offspring adjustment
Youth Problems Among Adoptees Living in One-Parent Homes
Has the Association Between Parental Divorce and Young Adults' Psychological Problems Changed Over Time? Evidence From Sweden, 1968-2000
Testing hypotheses on specific environmental causal effects on behavior
Family Instability and Child Well-Being
The ABC of demographic behaviour
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education
Gene-Environment Interplay, Family Relationships, and Child Adjustment
Research on Divorce
Parental Divorce and Offspring Depressive Symptoms
The Personality of Children Prior to Divorce
Genetics and experience
Parental psychiatric disorder
Behavioral Problems and Competencies Reported by Parents of Normal and Disturbed Children Aged Four Through Sixteen
Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States
Children's loneliness
I. Coping With Marital Transitions
The Perceived Competence Scale for Children
Coping With Divorce, Single Parenting, and Remarriage
The longitudinal course of marital quality and stability
Children of depressed parents
The effect of common rearing on adolescent adjustment
Moving against the world
Relation of parental transitions to boys' adjustment problems
The developmental interface between nature and nurture
Genotype–environment correlations in late childhood and early adolescence
Genotype-environment correlations in late childhood and early adolescence
What matters? What does not? Five perspectives on the association between marital transitions and children's adjustment
Personality and divorce
Serial marriage
Genotype-environment interaction and correlation in the analysis of human behavior
Parental divorce and the well-being of children
Family Type and Depression in Pregnancy
A Prospective Study of Divorce and Parent-Child Relationships
Effects of Parental Separation and Reentry into Union on the Emotional Well-Being of Children
Reconsidering the Effects of Marital Disruption
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |