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Research articleAuthors
Stallings MC, Neppl T
Journal
Developmental Psychology
Summary
In this study, authors examine social, genetic, and economic predictors of negative personality traits during adolescence and its influences on later educational and economic success. Results suggested potential gene-environment correlation or common genetic influences underlie associations among parenting investments, negative personality traits, and educational attainment.
Population
First generation (G1) fathers and mothers with mean age 40 and 38 yrs, second generation (G2) adolscents 12 to 14 yrs old
Health Outcomes
- Not available
Health Outcome List:
- Not available
Environmental Agents
List of Environmental Agents:
- Not available
Source of Environmental Agents:
- Not available
Economic Evaluation / Methods and Source
Type:
- Cost-utility analysis (CUA)
Cost Measures:
- G1 and G2 educational attainment
- G1 and G2 income, G1 parenting investments
- G1 material investments
- G2 negative personality traits
Potential Cost Measures:
- Not available
Benefits Measures:
- Not available
Potential Benefits Measures:
- Not available
Location:
- Rural Iowa, United States
Models Used:
- Interactionist model
- structural equation model
Models References:
- Not available
Methods Used:
- The authors incorporated a polygenic score derived from GWAS study of educational attainment into the Interactionist Model using — 1) full information maximum likelihood estimation to deal with missing data; 2) standardized regression coefficients partialed for all other coefficients in the model to determine standardized path coefficients of negative personality traits and socioeconomic traits; 3) estimated standard errors to determine significance of individual path coefficients; 4) a comparative fit index (CFI) and Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) to determine overall model fit; and 5) a conservative Bonferroni correction for evaluating the significance of the 23 path coefficients in the model.
Sources Used:
- Family Transitions Project; Interactionist model (Conger et.al., 2021); genome-wide association studies (GWAS) ( Okbay et al., 2016, and Lee et al., 2018.); Additional sources cited in the publication.
Economic Citation / Fundings
Citation:
- Stallings MC, Neppl T. An Examination of Genetic and Environmental Factors Related to Negative Personality Traits, Educational Attainment, and Economic Success. Developmental Psychology. 2021. 57; 2.
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- DOI
NIEHS Funding:
- Not available
Other Funding:
- R01HD064687