Austerberry, Chloe;
Fearon, Pasco;
Ronald, Angelica;
Leve, Leslie D;
Ganiban, Jody M;
Natsuaki, Misaki N;
Shaw, Daniel S;
... Reiss, David; + view all
(2024)
Evocative effects on the early caregiving environment of genetic
factors underlying the development of intellectual and academic ability.
Child Development
, 95
(6)
pp. 2082-2101.
10.1111/cdev.14142.
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Abstract
This study examined gene–environment correlation (rGE) in intellectual and academic development in 561 U.S.-based adoptees (57% male; 56% non-Latinx White, 19% multiracial, 13% Black or African American, 11% Latinx) and their birth and adoptive parents between 2003 and 2017. Birth mother intellectual and academic performance predicted adoptive mother warmth at child age 6 (β = .14, p = .038) and 7 (β = .12, p = .040) but not 4.5 years, and adoptive father warmth at 7 (β = .18, p = .007) but not 4.5 or 6 years. These rGE effects were not mediated by children's language. Contrary to theory that rGE accounts for increasing heritability of intellectual ability, parenting did not mediate genetic effects on children's language or academic performance.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Evocative effects on the early caregiving environment of genetic factors underlying the development of intellectual and academic ability |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.14142 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14142 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| 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/10205540 |
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