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Testing the impact of gene-environment interplay on the development of children’s internalising problems

Mateen, Maria; (2020) Testing the impact of gene-environment interplay on the development of children’s internalising problems. Doctoral thesis (D.Clin.Psy), UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Abstract

AIM: To test for the impact of parenting on child anxiety and reciprocal influences of child anxiety on parenting in a cross-lagged longitudinal framework from nine months to seven years. Further, to test whether evoked over-reactive parenting is linked to genetic risk for internalizing. METHOD: Using longitudinal data from the EGDS, transactional relationships between adopted child anxiety and adoptive parental overreactivity from nine months to seven years were explored in a cross-lagged structural equation model. Genetic risk was modelled using a composite of birth mother internalizing problems and family history as measured using the CIDI and the model also explored whether any identified transactional associations were associated with genetic risk. RESULTS: There was evidence of child anxiety at 54 months evoking increased over-reactive parenting at 72 months and parenting at 72 months prospectively predicting increased child anxiety at 84 months. Although the timing of this effect varied with informants, there was a consistent pathway from child anxiety to parental overreactivity. However, internalizing genetic risk was not associated with these transactional processes or to child anxiety or parenting at any point during this time frame. CONCLUSION: The current findings suggest there is a bidirectional relationship between child behaviour and parenting behaviour and, thus, that children partially evoke the parenting they receive. However, there was no evidence found for this evocative process being genetically based.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: D.Clin.Psy
Title: Testing the impact of gene-environment interplay on the development of children’s internalising problems
Event: UCL (University College London)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author 2020. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111200
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