Plomin R
J Pers. 1986 Mar;54(1):226-61. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1986.tb00394.x.
Traditional behavioral genetic methods involve the use primarily of family, twin, and adoption correlations to estimate the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences in the etiology of individual differences. These methods and representative results for personality are described. However, newer methods are emphasized: structural models and model-fitting, multivariate analysis, genetic change and continuity in development, shared and non-shared components of environmental variance, and genetic components of "environmental" variation. Because most applications of these behavioral genetic methods to the study of personality involve self-report omnibus questionnaires, an important direction for future research in this area is to use these methods to explore new issues and new measures that have emerged from personality theory and research during the past decade.
传统的行为遗传学方法主要涉及利用家庭、双胞胎和收养关系的相关性，来估计遗传和环境影响在个体差异病因学中的相对贡献。文中描述了这些方法以及人格方面的代表性结果。然而，重点强调了更新的方法：结构模型与模型拟合、多变量分析、发育过程中的遗传变化与连续性、环境方差的共享和非共享成分，以及“环境”变异的遗传成分。由于这些行为遗传学方法在人格研究中的大多数应用都涉及自我报告综合问卷，该领域未来研究的一个重要方向是利用这些方法，来探索过去十年中人格理论和研究中出现的新问题和新测量方法。
