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Parental monitoring moderates the importance of genetic and environmental influences on adolescent smoking

Journal

JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 116, Issue 1, Pages 213-218

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AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.116.1.213

Keywords

adolescent smoking; genetics; interaction; parenting; monitoring

Funding

  1. NIAAA NIH HHS [K05 AA000145, AA015416, R01 AA012502, R01 AA009203, R01 AA015416, AA00145, R37 AA012502, AA12502, AA09203] Funding Source: Medline

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Although there is a Substantial literature on the role of parenting in adolescent substance use, most parenting effects have been small in magnitude and studied outside the context of genetically informative designs, raising debate and controversy about the influence that parents have on their children (D. C. Rowe, 1994). Using a genetically informative twin-family design, the authors studied the role of parental monitoring on adolescent smoking at age 14. Although monitoring had only small main effects. consistent with the literature, there were dramatic moderation effects associated with parental monitoring: At high levels of parental monitoring, environmental influences were predominant in the etiology of adolescent smoking, but at low levels of parental monitoring, genetic influences assumed far greater importance. These analyses demonstrate that the etiology of adolescent smoking varies dramatically as a function of parenting.

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