Zheng, Yao, Molenaar, Peter C.M., Arden, Rosalind 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9753-9162, Asbury, Kathryn and Almeida, David M.
(2016)
Person-specific non-shared environmental influences in intraindividual variability: a preliminary case of daily school feelings in monozygotic twins.
Behavior Genetics, 46 (5).
pp. 705-717.
ISSN 0001-8244
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Abstract
Most behavioural genetic studies focus on genetic and environmental influences on inter-individual phenotypic differences at the population level. The growing collection of intensive longitudinal data in social and behavioural science offers a unique opportunity to examine genetic and environmental influences on intra-individual phenotypic variability at the individual level. The current study introduces a novel idiographic approach and one novel method to investigate genetic and environmental influences on intra-individual variability by a simple empirical demonstration. Person-specific non-shared environmental influences on intra-individual variability of daily school feelings were estimated using time series data from twenty-one pairs of monozygotic twins (age = 10 years, 16 female pairs) over two consecutive weeks. Results showed substantial inter-individual heterogeneity in person- specific non-shared environmental influences. The current study represents a first step in investigating environmental influences on intra-individual variability with an idiographic approach, and provides implications for future behavioural genetic studies to examine developmental processes from a microscopic angle.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/journal/10519 |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors © CC BY 4.0 |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2016 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67364 |
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