TY - JOUR
T1 - Parent-Adolescent Conflict And Young Adult Romantic Relationship Negativity
T2 - Genetic and environmental influences
AU - Picci, Giorgia
AU - Griffin, Amanda M.
AU - Reiss, David
AU - Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This report is part of the Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development project. Time 1 and Time 2 data collection was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (5R01MH43373, 5RO1MH48825) and the William T. Grant Foundation. Time 3 data collection was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (5R01MH059014). Giorgia Picci’s work was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant DGE1255832. Amanda M. Griffin’s work on this article was support by the Kligman Dissertation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant (F32 FHD093347A). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Finally, we are grateful to the participants, without whom this work would not have been possible.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - Prior work indicates that aspects of interpersonal relationships are heritable, including negativity within parent-adolescent relationships as well as romantic relationships during adulthood. There have not, however, been systematic studies to disentangle genetic and environmental influences on relationship dynamics with parents as they relate to romantic partner relationship dynamics. Thus, the present study examined genetic and environmental influences on associations between parent-adolescent conflict and young adult reports of negativity with a romantic partner using a longitudinal twin/sibling design. We found that genetic, shared, and nonshared environmental factors contributed to conflict in parent-adolescent relationships and that genetic and nonshared environmental factors uniquely contributed to negativity in the romantic partnership during young adulthood. The longitudinal association between parent-adolescent conflict and romantic relationship conflict was explained entirely by genetic influences shared by the 2 constructs. These findings have implications for understanding interpersonal functioning across different relationship types, spanning multiple developmental periods.
AB - Prior work indicates that aspects of interpersonal relationships are heritable, including negativity within parent-adolescent relationships as well as romantic relationships during adulthood. There have not, however, been systematic studies to disentangle genetic and environmental influences on relationship dynamics with parents as they relate to romantic partner relationship dynamics. Thus, the present study examined genetic and environmental influences on associations between parent-adolescent conflict and young adult reports of negativity with a romantic partner using a longitudinal twin/sibling design. We found that genetic, shared, and nonshared environmental factors contributed to conflict in parent-adolescent relationships and that genetic and nonshared environmental factors uniquely contributed to negativity in the romantic partnership during young adulthood. The longitudinal association between parent-adolescent conflict and romantic relationship conflict was explained entirely by genetic influences shared by the 2 constructs. These findings have implications for understanding interpersonal functioning across different relationship types, spanning multiple developmental periods.
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U2 - 10.1037/fam0000476
DO - 10.1037/fam0000476
M3 - Article
C2 - 30475004
AN - SCOPUS:85057243258
SN - 0893-3200
VL - 33
SP - 34
EP - 43
JO - Journal of Family Psychology
JF - Journal of Family Psychology
IS - 1
ER -