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Person-specific non-shared environmental influences in intraindividual variability: a preliminary case of daily school feelings in monozygotic twins

Zheng, Yao, Molenaar, Peter C.M., Arden, Rosalind, 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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Identification Number: 10.1007/s10519-016-9789-z

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
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: 07 Jan 2024 19:39
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67364

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