D'Onofrio Brian M, Turkheimer Eric, Emery Robert E, Slutske Wendy S, Heath Andrew C, Madden Pamela A, Martin Nicholas G
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2005 Nov;114(4):570-86. doi: 10.1037/0021-843X.114.4.570.
Parental divorce is associated with a number of emotional and behavioral problems in young-adult offspring, but theoretical and empirical considerations suggest that the relation may be partially or fully accounted for by passive gene-environment correlation or environmental selection characteristics. The current study used the Children of Twins Design to explore whether shared environmental or genetic factors confound the relationship between parental marital instability and measures of psychopathology. Comparisons of the offspring of adult twins in Australia on 3 factors of abnormal behavior, including drug and alcohol, behavioral, and internalizing problems, suggest that environmental influences associated with divorce account for the higher rates of psychopathology. The results are consistent with a causal connection between marital instability and psychopathology in young-adult offspring.
父母离异与年轻成年子女的一系列情绪和行为问题有关,但理论和实证研究表明,这种关系可能部分或完全由被动基因-环境相关性或环境选择特征来解释。本研究采用双胞胎子女设计,以探讨共享环境因素或遗传因素是否混淆了父母婚姻不稳定与精神病理学指标之间的关系。对澳大利亚成年双胞胎子女在药物和酒精、行为以及内化问题这三个异常行为因素上的比较表明,与离婚相关的环境影响导致了更高的精神病理学发生率。研究结果与年轻成年子女的婚姻不稳定和精神病理学之间的因果联系相一致。