Family Relationships and Adolescent Development

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Family Relationships

The Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) Project: A Longitudinal Family Study of Twins and Siblings from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenae M. Neiderhiser ◽  
David Reiss ◽  
E. Mavis Hetherington
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Genetic Relatedness ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Late Adolescence ◽  
Adolescent Adjustment ◽  
Genetic Influences ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Nonshared Environment

AbstractThe Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) project is a longitudinal study of twins/siblings and parents that has been assessed 3 times: middle adolescence, late adolescence and young adulthood (N = 720 families at Time 1). Siblings varied in degree of genetic relatedness including identical twins, fraternal twins, full siblings, half siblings and genetically unrelated (or step) siblings. There were also two family types: nondivorced and step. A multimeasure, multirater approach was taken in NEAD, with data collected from all participants (2 twins or siblings, mother and father) as well as from coded videotaped observations of family interactions. Detailed assessments of family relationships, adolescent adjustment and competence were collected at all 3 times. The original aim of NEAD was to identify systematic sources of nonshared environmental influences that contribute to differences among family members. Although systematic sources of nonshared environmental influences were not found in NEAD, three major sets of findings emerged: (1) genetic influences on family relationships and on associations between family relationships and adolescent adjustment; (2) genetic and environmental influences on adolescent adjustment, comorbidity and stability and change in adolescent adjustment from middle to late adolescence; and (3) genetic influences on relationships outside the family.

scholarly journals Adolescent age moderates genetic and environmental influences on parent–adolescent positivity and negativity: Implications for genotype–environment correlation

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Marceau ◽  
Valerie S. Knopik ◽  
Jenae M. Neiderhiser ◽  
Paul Lichtenstein ◽  
Erica L. Spotts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Development Study ◽  
Adolescent Relationships ◽  
Nonshared Environment ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
Older Adolescents ◽  
Adolescent Relationship

AbstractWe examined how genotype–environment correlation processes differ as a function of adolescent age. We tested whether adolescent age moderates genetic and environmental influences on positivity and negativity in mother–adolescent and father–adolescent relationships using parallel samples of twin parents from the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden and twin/sibling adolescents from the Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development Study. We inferred differences in the role of passive and nonpassive genotype–environment correlation based on biometric moderation findings. The findings indicated that nonpassive gene–environment correlation played a stronger role for positivity in mother– and father–adolescent relationships in families with older adolescents than in families with younger adolescents, and that passive gene–environment correlation played a stronger role for positivity in the mother–adolescent relationship in families with younger adolescents than in families with older adolescents. Implications of these findings for the timing and targeting of interventions on family relationships are discussed.

Family relationships and counselling

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Murgatroyd ◽  
Brian Cade ◽  
Michael Shooter
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships

The SRM Approach to Family Assessment

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
High Risk Behaviors ◽  
Analysis Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Direction Of Effects

Abstract. In family systems, it is possible for one to put oneself at risk by eliciting aversive, high-risk behaviors from others ( Cook, Kenny, & Goldstein, 1991 ). Consequently, it is desirable that family assessments should clarify the direction of effects when evaluating family dynamics. In this paper a new method of family assessment will be presented that identifies bidirectional influence processes in family relationships. Based on the Social Relations Model (SRM: Kenny & La Voie, 1984 ), the SRM Family Assessment provides information about the give and take of family dynamics at three levels of analysis: group, individual, and dyad. The method will be briefly illustrated by the assessment of a family from the PIER Program, a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to prevent the onset of psychosis in high-risk young people.

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