Neighborhood Disadvantage Alters the Origins of Children's Nonaggressive Conduct Problems.

ABSTRACT: Neighborhood disadvantage plays a pivotal role in child mental health, including child antisocial behavior (e.g., lying, theft, vandalism; assault, cruelty). Prior studies have indicated that shared environmental influences on youth antisocial behavior increase with increasing disadvantage, but have been unable to confirm that these findings persist once various selection confounds are considered. The current study sought to fill this gap in the literature, examining whether and how neighborhood disadvantage alters the genetic and environmental origins of child antisocial behavior. Our sample consisted of 2,054 child twins participating in the Michigan State University Twin Registry, half of whom were oversampled to reside in modestly-to-severely impoverished neighborhoods. We made use of

SUBMITTER: Burt SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915729 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature