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Links between parenting and extra-familial relationships: Nature or nurture?

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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:10 authored by Alison PikeAlison Pike, Thalia C Eley
The current paper examined associations between parenting and both peer group characteristics and friendship quality within a genetically sensitive design. Participants were aged 12-19 years (approximately equal numbers of males and females), including 424 sibling pairs and 1185 twin pairs, of whom 328 were MZ, 311 were DZ same-sex, 463 were DZ opposite-sex and 83 were of unknown zygosity. The adolescents provided self-report questionnaire measures of parental discipline, friendship quality, and peer group characteristics. All three relationship measures were moderately to substantially heritable. The novel and provocative finding, that adolescents' genetic propensities are largely responsible for the overlap seen between parental discipline strategies and friendship quality, is discussed in terms of its implications for socialization theory and understanding of adolescent relationships. 2008 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents.

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  • Published

Journal

Journal of Adolescence

ISSN

0140-1971

Issue

3

Volume

32

Page range

519-533

Pages

15.0

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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