Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parental brain‐derived neurotrophic factor genotype, child prosociality, and their interaction as predictors of parents’ warmth
Originally published 2017-04-04 · Brain and Behavior
Wiley · DOI 10.1002/brb3.685 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
When my child offers help, how do I acknowledge the intention?
The authors examine how children’s prosocial actions and parental characteristics relate to the warmth parents show.
Who was studied?
Families contributing child behavior and parental genetic measures
Age / stage: Around 6½ years
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate how children’s prosocial actions and parental characteristics relate to the warmth parents show?
- What other family or child characteristics could account for the observed pattern?
- How did twin comparisons and experimentally assessed prosociality contribute different evidence?
Keep the limits in view
A genetic interaction in this sample is not an individual prediction. The tested variants and behavioral measures bound the inference.
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Reut Avinun; Ariel Knafo‐Noam (2017). Parental brain‐derived neurotrophic factor genotype, child prosociality, and their interaction as predictors of parents’ warmth Brain and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.685
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