On the genetic and environmental sources of social and political participation in adolescence and early adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Political participation (POP), social participation (SOP), and political interest (PI) are important indicators of social status and social inequality. Previous studies on related trait differences yielded genetic and environmental contributions. However, focusing on adult samples, classical twin designs, and convenience samples often restricts parameter estimation and generalizability, and limits the understanding of age differences. We investigated sources of variance in POP, SOP, and PI in late adolescence and early adulthood with an extended twin family design (ETFD). We analyzed data from over 2,000 representative German twin families. Individual environments not shared by family members reflected the major source of variance for all variables, but genetic influences were also pronoun

SUBMITTER: Kornadt AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108469 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature