Causes of individual differences in adolescent optimism: a study in Dutch twins and their siblings

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Rezan Mavioğlu, Dorret Boomsma, Meike Bartels]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 24/11(2015-11-01), 1381-1388
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a The aim of this study was to investigate the degree to which genetic and environmental influences affect variation in adolescent optimism. Optimism (3 items and 6 items approach) and pessimism were assessed by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) in 5,187 adolescent twins and 999 of their non-twin siblings from the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR). Males reported significantly higher optimism scores than females, while females score higher on pessimism. Genetic structural equation modeling revealed that about one-third of the variance in optimism and pessimism was due to additive genetic effects, with the remaining variance being explained by non-shared environmental effects. A bivariate correlated factor model revealed two dimensions with a genetic correlation of −.57 (CI −.67, −.47), while the non-shared environmental correlation was estimated to be −.21 (CI −.25, −.16). Neither an effect of shared environment, non-additive genetic influences, nor quantitative sex differences was found for both dimensions. This result indicates that individual differences in adolescent optimism are mainly accounted for by non-shared environmental factors. These environmental factors do not contribute to the similarity of family members, but to differences between them. Familial resemblance in optimism and pessimism assessed in adolescents is fully accounted for by genetic overlap between family members. 
540 |a The Author(s), 2015 
690 7 |a Optimism  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Pessimism  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Twin-sibling design  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Adolescence  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Non-shared environment  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Mavioğlu  |D Rezan  |u Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Boomsma  |D Dorret  |u Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Bartels  |D Meike  |u Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Bartels  |D Meike  |u Department of Biological Psychology, Netherlands Twin Register, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  |4 aut 
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