Early home environment and retrospective recall: A test for concordance between siblings with and without psychiatric disorders.

Robins, Lee N.; Schoenberg, Sandra P.; Holmes, Scott A.; Ratcliff, Kathryn Strother; Benham, Alexandra; Works, Jane

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1985.tb03419.x

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“…Perhaps, the most straight forward explanation is one of memory; respondents may not remember that they have used certain substances (Robins et al, 1985). However, given the salience of substance use as indicated by media attention and the informal and the formal rules surrounding its use in schools and communities, it is likely that most people will remember whether they have used substances such as alcohol, marijuana, or cocaine.…”

Section: Consistency Of Reports Across Timementioning

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“…One assumption in the literature has been that the closer in time that reports are made, the more accurate the report is likely to be as there is less of a chance of misremembering the behavior (Robins et al, 1985). However, it is possible that some adolescents exaggerate their use and that the adult retrospective reports about adolescent use are more accurate.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, reports during adolescence could be construed as "underreporting" if the retrospective reports by adults are inflated. For example, adults with psychological distress or who are current users could overestimate their past use of drugs or other deviant behavior (Robins et al, 1985).…”

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Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: Explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population

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Drug use trends are typically monitored by surveys of retrospective self-reports of drug use; yet we know little about the consistency of reports made across the life course. This study examines the consistency of marijuana self-reports from adolescence and adulthood and what characterizes inconsistent reporting among a cohort of African American first graders followed longitudinally from age 6 to 32 (N = 599, 51% female). Self-reported lifetime adolescent marijuana use (ages 16-17) and retrospective reports at age 32 were combined to categorize respondents as consistent reporters of nonuse (22%), consistent reporters of use (42%), adult recanters (19%), adolescent underreporters (8%), and inconsistent reporters of age of initiation (9%). Overall, about 64% of the population were consistent in their reports of adolescent marijuana use from adolescence to age 32. Multivariate logistic regression analyses found that recanters reported less marijuana use as adolescents, lower parental supervision during adolescence, lower deviant behavior as an adult, and stronger anti-drug values as adults than did consistent reporters. Adolescent underreporters reported less assault behaviors and less alcohol use as adolescents and had lower first grade math achievement than consistent reporters. Family background, depression, criminal arrests, and the field conditions of the interview were not related to inconsistent reporting.

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Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: Explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population

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2007

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“…The behavioral assessment was augmented with cognitive measures (Slosson Oral Reading Test (Slosson, 1990) and Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (Raven, 1956) in Wave 3) and physical measures (height, weight) and questions about the twins' pregnancy and health problems. Environmental assessment includes the Home Environment Interview (based on Robins et al, 1985). Census block/tract data from 1990 US Census are also available.…”

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Genetic and Cultural Transmission of Antisocial Behavior: An Extended Twin Parent Model

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C onsiderable evidence from twin and adoption studies indicates that both genetic and shared environmental factors play a substantial role in the liability to antisocial behavior. Although twin and adoption designs can resolve genetic and environmental influences, they do not provide information about assortative mating, parent-offspring transmission, or the contribution of these factors to trait variation. We examined the role of genetic and environmental factors for conduct disorder (CD) using a twin-parent design. This design allows the simultaneous estimation of additive genetic, shared and individual-specific environmental effects, as well as sex differences in the expression of genes and environment in the presence of assortative mating and combined genetic and cultural transmission. A retrospective measure of CD was obtained from twins and their parents or guardians in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavior Development and its Young Adult Follow up sample. Both genetic and environmental factors play a significant role in the liability to CD. Major influences on individual differences appeared to be additive genetic (38%-40%) and unique environmental (39%-42%) effects, with smaller contributions from the shared environment (18%-23%), assortative mating (~2%), cultural transmission (~2%) and resulting genotype-environment covariance. This study showed significant heritability, which is slightly increased by assortative mating, and significant effects of primarily nonparental shared environment on CD.In this article, we aim to accomplish four goals. First, we highlight some of the main findings published so far with respect to individual differences in internalizing and externalizing behavior from a range of perspectives. Second, we briefly introduce the genetic epidemiologic literature on antisocial behavior, with a special focus on longitudinal applications. Third, we describe the overall design, sample and measures in the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavior Development (VTSABD) and Young Adult Follow Up (YAFU) in detail as well as the measures on antisocial behavior used in the current analyses. Fourth, we illustrate some of the unique features of its design by extending the classical twin study with data collected from biological and nonbiological (referred to as stepfor this article) parents to examine the role of genetic and environmental factors in the variation of antisocial behavior. The added information from parent-offspring correlations and spousal correlations will allow us to (i) disentangle genetic and cultural transmission, (ii) partition the environmental variance into influences shared with parents, with twin siblings and those specific to the individual, and (iii) test for and quantify the effects of assortative mating. This design thus provides an extended perspective to the traditional longitudinal study by studying the sources of continuity and change across generations. Although we only illustrate this using retrospective data in adolescence and one single measure, these...

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“…Although there have been findings supporting the validity of retrospective reports of childhood adversities (e.g., Bifulco, Brown, & Lillie, 1997;Robins et al, 1985), and although retrospective studies have promoted the formulation of developmental hypotheses, it is nevertheless problematic to make strong causal inferences about the impact of adverse childhood experiences on the development of personality disorders based on retrospective data. Retrospective studies cannot rule out the alternative hypotheses that the association of childhood adversities with maladaptive personality traits is attributable to recall bias or to preexisting childhood traits that may contribute to the onset of some types of childhood adversities (Maughan & Rutter, 1997;Paris, 1997).…”

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The Developmental Psychopathology of Personality Disorders

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Early home environment and retrospective recall: A test for concordance between siblings with and without psychiatric disorders.

Cited by 159 publications

References 7 publications

Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: Explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population

Consistency between adolescent reports and adult retrospective reports of adolescent marijuana use: Explanations of inconsistent reporting among an African American population

Genetic and Cultural Transmission of Antisocial Behavior: An Extended Twin Parent Model

The Developmental Psychopathology of Personality Disorders

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