Linkages between children's and their friends' social and physical aggression: Evidence for a gene-environment interaction?

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-29

  Brendgen, Mara ^a   Boivin, Michel ^b   Vitaro, Frank ^c   Bukowski, William M ^d   Dionne, Ginette ^b   Tremblay, Richard E ^c   Pérusse, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; FRIEND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; TWINS;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; DISEASES IN TWINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 38849159914     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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