Change in Parenting, Change in Student-Teacher Relationships, and Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR): Testing a Gene-×-Environment (G×E) Hypothesis in Two Samples

Autor/inn/en	Hygen, Beate Wold; Belsky, Jay; Li, Zhi; Stenseng, Frode; Güzey, Ismail Cuneyt; Wichstrøm, Lars
Titel	Change in Parenting, Change in Student-Teacher Relationships, and Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR): Testing a Gene-×-Environment (G×E) Hypothesis in Two Samples
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 53 (2017) 7, S.1300-1315 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000333
Schlagwörter	Parenting Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship; Genetics; Environmental Influences; Hypothesis Testing; Physiology; Age Differences; Predictor Variables; Cross Cultural Studies; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Screening Tests; Child Behavior; Behavior Problems; Interviews; Observation; Measures (Individuals); Rating Scales; Check Lists; Statistical Analysis; Regression (Statistics); Norway; Virginia; California (Irvine); Kansas; Arkansas (Little Rock); Wisconsin (Madison); North Carolina; Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh); Washington (Seattle); Massachusetts; Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; Student Teacher Relationship Scale; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Humangenetik; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Physiologie; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Prädiktor; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Ausland; Fragebogen; Screening-Verfahren; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Messdaten; Rating-Skala; Checkliste; Statistische Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Norwegen; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Prior research suggests that parenting affects children's relationships, including those with teachers, although there is variation across individuals in such effects. Given evidence suggesting that oxytocin may be particularly important for the quality of social relationships, we tested the hypotheses (a) that change in parenting from 4 to 6 years of age influences and predicts change in the student-teacher relationship from 6 to 8 years of age and (b) that this effect is moderated by a polymorphism related to the child's oxytocin receptor gene ("OXTR"), rs53576. In 2 studies, participants included, respectively, 652 socioeconomically diverse Norwegian children from a community sample (50.8% male; mean age of 54.9 months at first assessment) and 559 such children from 8 different U.S. locales (49.0% male; approximately 54 months at the first assessment). Norwegian results showed that change in parenting predicted change in student-teacher relationships, but only in the case of children homozygous for the A allele of rs53576 and in a manner consistent with differential-susceptibility theory: for AA carriers, when parenting changed for the worse, so did children's relationship with teachers, whereas when parenting changed for the better, the teacher-child relationships improved accordingly. Such G×E findings could not be replicated in the American sample. Results are discussed in terms of 2 contrasting models of Person-×-Environment interaction (differential susceptibility and diathesis stress) and potential reasons for failure to replicate. (As Provided).
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