The Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety: A Children-of-Twins Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The transmission of anxiety within families is well recognized, but the underlying processes are poorly understood. Twin studies of adolescent anxiety demonstrate both genetic and environmental influence, and multiple aspects of parenting are associated with offspring anxiety. To date, the children-of-twins design has not been used to evaluate the relative contributions of genetic transmission compared with direct transmission of anxiety from parents to their offspring.

Method

Anxiety and neuroticism measures were completed by 385 monozygotic and 486 dizygotic same-sex twin families (37% male twin pair families) from the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden. Structural equation models tested for the presence of both genetic and environmental transmission from one gen

SUBMITTER: Eley TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8515953 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature