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Gene-Environment Processes in Adolescent Family Relationships

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Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan

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Each developing adolescent’s thoughts, emotions and behaviors arise from a complex interplay of genetic and environmental influences. These work in combination to produce the individual differences in personality, psychopathology, and social cognitions that contribute to healthy or maladaptive development. In the current chapter, our goal was to examine and integrate research that has examined gene-environment (GE) interplay as it pertains to a particular aspect of adolescents’ social worlds: their family relationships, with emphasis on the parent–adolescent relationship, the adolescent sibling relationship, and the parents’ marital relationship. In each case, these social relationships are powerful contexts in which the role of genetic factors must be considered, in order to better understand the roles of both biology and environment in adolescent individuality.

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Chen, N., Deater-Deckard, K. (2015). Gene-Environment Processes in Adolescent Family Relationships. In: Horwitz, B., Neiderhiser, J. (eds) Gene-Environment Interplay in Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan. Advances in Behavior Genetics, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2923-8_6

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