How Heritable are Parental Sensitivity and Limit-Setting? A Longitudinal Child-Based Twin Study on Observed Parenting

Saskia Euser; Jizzo R. Bosdriesz; Claudia I. Vrijhof; Bianca G. van den Bulk; Debby van Hees; Sanne M. de Vet; Marinus H. van IJzendoorn; Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

doi:10.1111/cdev.13365

How Heritable are Parental Sensitivity and Limit-Setting? A Longitudinal Child-Based Twin Study on Observed Parenting

Saskia Euser^*, Jizzo R. Bosdriesz, Claudia I. Vrijhof, Bianca G. van den Bulk, Debby van Hees, Sanne M. de Vet, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

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We examined the relative contribution of genetic, shared environmental and non-shared environmental factors to the covariance between parental sensitivity and limit-setting observed twice in a longitudinal study using a child-based twin design. Parental sensitivity and parental limit-setting were observed in 236 parents with each of their same-sex toddler twin children (M_age = 3.8 years; 58% monozygotic). Bivariate behavioral genetic models indicated substantial effects of similar shared environmental factors on parental sensitivity and limit-setting and on the overlap within sensitivity and limit-setting across 1 year. Moderate child-driven genetic effects were found for parental limit-setting in year 1 and across 1 year. Genetic child factors contributing to explaining the variance in limit-setting over time were the same, whereas shared environmental factors showed some overlap.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2255-2269
Number of pages	15
Journal	Child Development
Volume	91
Issue number	6
Early online date	9 Apr 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13365
Publication status	Published - Nov 2020

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