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LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 549-553Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.06.005
Keywords
Gene-environment correlation; Household chaos; Home environment
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- MRC [G0802681, G0500079, G19/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0500079, G19/2, G0802681] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0500079, G0802681, G0500079(73692), G19/2] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD044454, R01 HD046167-03, R01 HD046167, R01 HD044454-01A2] Funding Source: Medline
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Chaos in the home is a key environment in cognitive and behavioural development. However, we show that children's experience of home chaos is partly genetically mediated. We assessed children's perceptions of household chaos at ages 9 and 12 in 2337 pairs of twins. Using child-specific reports allowed us to use structural equation modelling to explore the genetic and environmental etiologies of children's perceptions of chaos. We found that these perceptions are significantly heritable (22%), with the remainder explained by environmental influences. Finding that genes influence children's experience of chaotic environments has far-reaching implications for how we conceptualize the family home and its impact on cognitive and behavioural development. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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