Community matters: GxE interactions predicting childhood aggression and violent behavior

Sattler, Leslie J.; Thomas, Kristie A.; Vaughn, Michael G.; Almeida, Joanna; White, Lori A.; Waldman, Marcus

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.03.002

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“…Community cohesion significantly predicted youth aggression and rule‐breaking behaviors, which is in line with extant research concerning the community environment's influence on youth behaviors (Chang et al, 2016; Sattler et al, 2019; Van Gundy et al, 2011). For example, Chang et al's meta‐analysis study confirms the robust relation between neighborhood disadvantages and individual aggression, with the effect most prominent among young and female individuals.…”

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Ecological contexts of youth antisocial behaviors: A longitudinal perspective

Zhang

Lefmann

Lee

et al. 2021

Aggressive Behavior

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The current study examined and compared the relative influence of ecological factors on youth antisocial behaviors (i.e., aggression and rule‐breaking) using longitudinal data while assessing the moderating effect of youth attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis. The study used the fifth and sixth wave of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 2595; mean age = 9.26 at wave five) for the analysis. Multivariate models show that youth ADHD, physically and psychologically abusive parenting, peer victimization, and community cohesion were important predictors of youth antisocial behaviors. Furthermore, youth ADHD diagnosis moderated some associations between the ecological factors and antisocial behaviors, suggesting that youth with and without ADHD may respond to some ecological contexts differently regarding the concerning behaviors. The findings imply that interventions targeting youth antisocial behaviors should involve collaboration across systems and coordination across programs to tackle a multilayered ecological context, especially when youth with ADHD are involved.

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confidence: 86%

Ecological contexts of youth antisocial behaviors: A longitudinal perspective

Zhang

Lefmann

Lee

et al. 2021

Aggressive Behavior

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“…However, among those who were securely attached, children with STin2 10.10 alleles might be more sensitive to respond to social cues and develop better socioemotional competence than other children. Compared to extensive studies investigating 5‐HTTLPR, only a few studies have included STin2 (Sattler et al., 2019; Sulik et al., 2012). Furthermore, at present, little is known about the interaction between STin2 and child attachment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…By modulating effects of 5‐HTTLPR, STin2 polymorphisms affect mood, stress, and socioemotional development (http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/110806307). Accordingly, previous research has investigated gene–environment interactions in predicting child aggression and violent behavior (Sattler et al., 2019). In this work, 5‐HTTLPR and STin2 were included.…”

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“…Notably, allelic variants of each have been associated with adverse psychiatric outcomes (e.g., Kaufman et al., 2004; de Lara et al., 2006). However, although interactions between 5‐HTTLPR alleles and adversity in predicting psychopathology are well studied (e.g., Caspi et al., 2010), STin2 has not been studied extensively (for exceptions see Sattler et al., 2019; Sulik et al., 2012). In addition, in many existing studies STin2 is included with 5‐HTTLPR (e.g., de Lara et al., 2006; Fan & Sklar, 2005; Smits et al., 2004), even though it exerts independent effects on important mental health outcomes.…”

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Serotonergic sensitivity alleles moderate relations between attachment security at age three and socioemotional competence at age five

Lee

Schoppe‐Sullivan

Beauchaine

2020

Developmental Psychobiology

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Children with higher socioemotional competence are more likely to build constructive relationships with others and experience more positive adjustment outcomes in later periods. Securely attached children are likely to develop better socioemotional competence, but genetic moderation of associations between attachment and later socioemotional competence has received less attention. Using structural equation modeling, this study analyzed data collected from 1,337 children (51% male) born from 1998 to 2000 in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. The results demonstrated that relations between attachment security at age 3 years and their social competence at age 5 years differed by two serotonin transporter variants (5‐HTTLPR, STin2). Effect sizes of these interactions were larger than effect sizes of main effects and the benefit of having sensitive alleles was consistently supported. This implies that having more secure attachment in the early developmental period is advantageous especially for children with minor alleles who have greater environmental sensitivity.

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“…All scales are scored by summing their constituent 3-level Likert items. Additionally, we created a novel scale to measure child violent behavior from the following subset of the aggressive behavior scale items: “is cruel, bullies, or shows meanness to others”, “destroys things belonging to family or others”, “gets in many fights”, “physically attacks people”, and “threatens people.” This scale is modified from a prior scale created from the CBCL items in FFCW used by Sattler et al ( Sattler et al, 2019 ) by dropping the item “has a hot temper.” This item was dropped due to the lack of explicit violent behavior being measured by the item. Due to the novelty of this violent behaviors scale, we estimated its internal consistency as well as factor structure at each wave to ensure its reliability prior to use in our models.…”

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The effect of increased minimum wage on child externalizing behaviors

Woods‐Jaeger

Livingston

Lemon

et al. 2021

Preventive Medicine Reports

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The Family Stress Model (FSM) has been used to show the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and child externalizing behaviors and suggests that interventions promoting economic security may be a promising approach to reduce child externalizing behavior. Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study from 2002 to 2010 we examined the effect of minimum wage laws on child externalizing behaviors through a difference in difference in differences (DDD) study design. Externalizing behavior was assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) using the rule breaking, attention problems, and violence subscales. DDD analyses suggest a $1 increase in the minimum wage was associated with a 2% reduction in violent behaviors (β = −1.90, 95%CI[−3.12, −0.68], p = 0.003) for the most vulnerable families headed by a primary caregiver with less than a high school education. The study results suggest that increases in the minimum wage are associated with reductions in the most severe and costly externalizing behaviors among children. Study results contribute to a growing body of literature showing that increased family incomes have positive impacts on child development, and that minimum wage policy is potentially an effective mechanism for the primary prevention of violence.

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Community matters: GxE interactions predicting childhood aggression and violent behavior

Cited by 3 publications

References 68 publications

Ecological contexts of youth antisocial behaviors: A longitudinal perspective

Ecological contexts of youth antisocial behaviors: A longitudinal perspective

Serotonergic sensitivity alleles moderate relations between attachment security at age three and socioemotional competence at age five

The effect of increased minimum wage on child externalizing behaviors

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