Effects of divorce on Dutch boys' and girls' externalizing behavior in Gene x Environment perspective:Diathesis stress or differential susceptibility in the Dutch Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey study?

The effects of divorce on children's behavioral development have proven to be quite varied across studies, and most developmental and family scholars today appreciate the great heterogeneity in divorce effects. Thus, this inquiry sought to determine whether select dopaminergic genes previously associated with externalizing behavior and/or found to moderate diverse environmental effects (dopamine receptors D2 and D4, catechol-O-methyltransferase) might moderate divorce effects on adolescent self-reported externalizing problems; and, if so, whether evidence of gene environment (G x E) interactio... Mehr ...