Rhea Sally Ann, Bricker Josh B, Corley Robin P, Defries John C, Wadsworth Sally J
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0447.
Adopt Q. 2013;16(1):17-39. doi: 10.1080/10926755.2012.754810.
This paper describes the Colorado Adoption Project (CAP), a longitudinal study in behavioral development, and discusses how adoption studies may be used to assess genetic and environmental etiologies of individual differences for important developmental outcomes. Previous CAP research on adjustment outcomes in childhood and adolescence which found significant interactions, including gene-environment interactions, is reviewed. New research suggests mediating effects of menarche and religiosity on age at first sex in this predominantly middle-class, Caucasian sample.
本文介绍了科罗拉多收养项目（CAP），一项关于行为发展的纵向研究，并讨论了收养研究如何用于评估重要发展结果中个体差异的遗传和环境病因。回顾了CAP之前关于儿童期和青少年期适应结果的研究，这些研究发现了显著的相互作用，包括基因-环境相互作用。新的研究表明，在这个以中产阶级白人为主的样本中，初潮和宗教信仰对首次性行为年龄有中介作用。
