Parental Divorce and Adolescent Delinquency: Ruling Out the Impact of Common Genes

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1668-1677

  Burt, S Alexandra ^a   Barnes, Ashlee R ^a   McGue, Matt ^b   Iacono, William G ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption design; delinquency; divorce; passive gene environment correlation; shared environment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIVORCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CAUSALITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIVORCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 56349139936     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013477     Document Type: Article

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