TY - JOUR
T1 - The Early Growth and Development Study
T2 - A Dual-Family Adoption Study from Birth Through Adolescence
AU - Leve, Leslie D.
AU - Neiderhiser, Jenae M.
AU - Ganiban, Jody M.
AU - Natsuaki, Misaki N.
AU - Shaw, Daniel S.
AU - Reiss, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by R01 HD042608, NICHD, NIDA and OBSSR, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI Years 1–5: David Reiss; PI Years 6–10: Leslie Leve), R01 DA020585 NIDA, NIMH and OBSSR, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI: Jenae Neiderhiser), R01 MH092118, NIMH, NIH, U.S. PHS (PIs: Jenae Neiderhiser and Leslie Leve), R01 DK090264, NIDDK, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI: Jody Ganiban), R01 DA035062, NIDA, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI: Leslie Leve), R56 HD042608, NICHD, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI: Leslie Leve), and UG3/UH3 OD023389, Office of the Director, NIH, U.S. PHS (PIs: Leslie Leve, Jenae Neiderhiser and Jody Ganiban). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, the Office of the Director, or the National Institutes of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS) is a prospective adoption study of birth parents, adoptive parents and adopted children (n = 561 adoptees). The original sample has been expanded to include siblings of the EGDS adoptees who were reared by the birth mother and assessed beginning at age 7 years (n = 217 biological children), and additional siblings in both the birth and adoptive family homes, recruited when the adoptees were 8-15 years old (n = 823). The overall study aims are to examine how family, peer and contextual processes affect child and adolescent adjustment, and to examine their interplay (mediation, moderation) with genetic influences. Adoptive and birth parents were originally recruited through adoption agencies located throughout the USA following the birth of a child. Assessments are ongoing and occurred in 9 month's intervals until the adoptees turned 3 years of age, and in 1 to 2 year intervals thereafter through age 15. Data collection includes the following primary constructs: child temperament, behavior problems, mental health, peer relations, executive functioning, school performance and health; birth and adoptive parent personality characteristics, mental health, health, context, substance use, parenting and marital relations; and the prenatal environment. Findings highlight the power of the adoption design to detect environmental influences on child development and provide evidence of complex interactions and correlations between genetic, prenatal environmental and postnatal environmental influences on a range of child outcomes. The study sample, procedures and an overview of findings are summarized and ongoing assessment activities are described.
AB - The Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS) is a prospective adoption study of birth parents, adoptive parents and adopted children (n = 561 adoptees). The original sample has been expanded to include siblings of the EGDS adoptees who were reared by the birth mother and assessed beginning at age 7 years (n = 217 biological children), and additional siblings in both the birth and adoptive family homes, recruited when the adoptees were 8-15 years old (n = 823). The overall study aims are to examine how family, peer and contextual processes affect child and adolescent adjustment, and to examine their interplay (mediation, moderation) with genetic influences. Adoptive and birth parents were originally recruited through adoption agencies located throughout the USA following the birth of a child. Assessments are ongoing and occurred in 9 month's intervals until the adoptees turned 3 years of age, and in 1 to 2 year intervals thereafter through age 15. Data collection includes the following primary constructs: child temperament, behavior problems, mental health, peer relations, executive functioning, school performance and health; birth and adoptive parent personality characteristics, mental health, health, context, substance use, parenting and marital relations; and the prenatal environment. Findings highlight the power of the adoption design to detect environmental influences on child development and provide evidence of complex interactions and correlations between genetic, prenatal environmental and postnatal environmental influences on a range of child outcomes. The study sample, procedures and an overview of findings are summarized and ongoing assessment activities are described.
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U2 - 10.1017/thg.2019.66
DO - 10.1017/thg.2019.66
M3 - Article
C2 - 31526412
AN - SCOPUS:85072345837
VL - 22
SP - 716
EP - 727
JO - Twin Research and Human Genetics
JF - Twin Research and Human Genetics
SN - 1832-4274
IS - 6
ER -