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Gene-Environment Correlation Underlying the Association between Parental Negativity and Adolescent Externalizing Problems
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Marceau, Kristine; Horwitz, Briana N.; Narusyte, Jurgita; Ganiban, Jody M.; Spotts, Erica L.; Reiss, David; Neiderhiser, Jenae M. – Child Development, 2013
Studies of adolescent or parent-based twins suggest that gene-environment correlation (rGE) is an important mechanism underlying parent-adolescent relationships. However, information on how parents' and children's genes and environments influence correlated parent "and" child behaviors is needed to distinguish types of rGE. The present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetics, Environment, Correlation
A Basis for Identifying Stimuli Which Control Behaviors in Natural Settings
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Patterson, G. R. – Child Development, 1974
Describes procedures for identifying stimuli in the natural environment whose presence was associated with altered probabilities for both the initiation and persistence of noxious responses. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Environment
Learning to Control the Environment in Infancy
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Finkelstein, Neal W.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1977
A sample of 34 infants participated in 3 experiments designed to determine whether experience with response-contingent stimulation would enhance an infant's subsequent learning performance. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Attention, Contingency Management, Environment, Infants
The Use and Abuse of Environment in Behavior-Genetic Research.
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Wachs, Theodore D. – Child Development, 1983
Contrasts measurements and conceptualizations of the environment employed by environmentally oriented behavioral scientists with those developed by behavior geneticists. For the environmentalist, the environment is multidimensional, dynamic, and transactional, as well as mediated by the individual. By contrast, the behavior geneticist's…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Comparative Analysis, Environment, Fundamental Concepts
Neonatal Temperament in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twin Pairs.
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Reise, Marilyn L. – Child Development, 1990
Findings indicated that zygosity was not related to behavioral scores during the neonatal period, and that environment substantially influenced neonatal temperament. Specific perinatal indicators of risk were found to account for some of the intrapair differences in behavioral variables. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Comparative Analysis, Environment, Heredity
Environmental Views and Values of Children in an Inner-City Black Community.
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Kahn, Peter H., Jr.; Friedman, Batya – Child Development, 1995
Interviewed 72 children across grades 1, 3, and 5 from an impoverished inner-city black community on their views and values about the natural environment. Overall, children showed sensitivity to nature and awareness of environmental problems, although this sensitivity and awareness were attenuated by both developmental and cultural factors. (MDM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Elementary Education, Environment
Biological and Cultural Diversity: The Legacy of Darwin for Development.
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Scarr, Sandra – Child Development, 1993
Posits that an evolutionary perspective can unite the study of the typical development for and individual variation within a species and that environments within the normal range for a species are required for species-normal development. Individual differences in children reared in normal environments arise primarily from genetic variation and…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Definitions, Environment