Revisiting the association between reading achievement and antisocial behavior: New evidence of an environmental explanation from a twin study

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-88

  Trzesniewski, Kali H ^a,c   Moffitt, Terrie E ^a   Caspi, Avshalom ^a   Taylor, Alan ^b   Maughan, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; READING; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TWINS; UNITED KINGDOM; ZYGOTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; READING; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WALES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 33644936046     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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