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Genes
play key role in parenting: Children also shape parents' behavior
Genes
play key role in parenting: Children also shape parents' behavior
Date:
March 20,
2014
Source:
Michigan State University
Summary:
Scientists have presented the most conclusive evidence
yet that genes play a significant role in parenting. The study sheds light on
another misconception: that parenting is solely a top-down process from parent
to child. While parents certainly seem to shape child behavior, parenting also
is influenced by the child's behavior -- in other words, parenting is both a
cause and a consequence of child behavior.
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Scientists
have presented the most conclusive evidence yet that genes play a significant
role in parenting
A study by
two Michigan State University psychologists refutes the popular theory that how
adults parent their children is strictly a function of the way they were
themselves parented when they were children.
While
environmental factors do play a role in parenting, so do a person's genes, said
S. Alexandra Burt, associate professor of psychology and co-author of a study
led by doctoral student Ashlea M. Klahr.
"The
way we parent is not solely a function of the way we were parented as
children," Burt said. "There also appears to be genetic influences on
parenting."
Klahr and
Burt conducted a statistical analysis of 56 scientific studies from around the
world on the origins of parenting behavior, including some of their own. The
comprehensive analysis, involving more than 20,000 families from Australia to
Japan to the United States, found that genetic influences in the parents
account for 23 percent to 40 percent of parental warmth, control and negativity
towards their children.
"What's
still not clear, however, is whether genes directly influence parenting or do
so indirectly, through parent personality for example," Klahr said.
The study
sheds light on another misconception: that parenting is solely a top-down
process from parent to child. While parents certainly seem to shape child
behavior, parenting also is influenced by the child's behavior -- in other
words, parenting is both a cause and a consequence of child behavior.
"One of
the most consistent and striking findings to emerge from this study was the
important role that children's characteristics play in shaping all aspects of
parenting," the authors write.
Ultimately,
parenting styles stem from many factors.
"Parents
have their own experiences when they were children, their own personalities,
their own genes. On top of that, they are also responding to their child's
behaviors and stage of development," Burt said. "Basically, there are
a lot of influences happening simultaneously. Long story short, though, we need
to be sensitive to the fact that this is a two-way process between parent and
child that is both environmental and genetic."
The study is
published in Psychological Bulletin, a research journal of the American
Psychological Association.
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Source:
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Journal
Reference:
- Ashlea M. Klahr, S. Alexandra Burt. Elucidating the etiology of individual differences in parenting: A meta-analysis of behavioral genetic research.. Psychological Bulletin, 2014; 140 (2): 544 DOI: 10.1037/a0034205