title: Maternal unresponsiveness and child disruptive problems: the interplay of uninhibited temperament and dopamine transporter genes.
abstract: This study examined how and why dopamine transporter (DAT1) susceptibility alleles moderate the relation between maternal unresponsiveness and young children's behavior problems in a disadvantaged, predominantly minority sample of 201 two-year-old children and their mothers. Using a multimethod, multisource design, the findings indicated that a genetic composite of DAT1 susceptibility alleles (rs27072, rs40184) potentiated associations between maternal unresponsive caregiving and increases in children's behavior problems 2 years later. Moderator-mediated-moderation analyses further revealed that the DAT1 diathesis was more proximally mediated by the potentiating effects of children's uninhibited temperament in the pathway between maternal unresponsiveness and disruptive behavior problems. Results are interpreted in the context of supporting and advancing the biosocial developmental model (Beauchaine & Gatzke-Kopp, 2012).
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Dante
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cicchetti
authors.forename: Rochelle F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Hentges
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D000066553:Problem Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D013694:Temperament / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D050483:Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; C493214:SLC6A3 protein, human