title: Estimating the Roles of Genetic Risk, Perinatal Risk, and Marital Hostility on Early Childhood Adjustment: Medical Records and Self-Reports.
abstract: A wide variety of perinatal risk factors have been linked to later developmental outcomes in children. Much of this work has relied on either birth/medical records or mothers' self-reports collected after delivery, and there has been an ongoing debate about which strategy provides the most accurate and reliable data. This report uses a parent-offspring adoption design (N = 561 families) to (1) examine the correspondence between medical record data and self-report data, (2) examine how perinatal risk factors may influence child internalizing and externalizing behavior at age 4.5 years, and (3) explore interactions among genetic, perinatal risk, and rearing environment on child internalizing and externalizing behavior during early childhood. The agreement of self-reports and medical records data was relatively high (51-100 %), although there was some variation based on the construct. There were few main effects of perinatal risk on child outcomes; however, there were several 2- and 3-way interactions suggesting that the combined influences of genetic, perinatal, and rearing environmental risks are important, particularly for predicting whether children exhibit internalizing versus externalizing symptoms at age 4.5 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Penn State University, 141 Moore Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. jenaemn@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Jenae M
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4474-5330
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Neiderhiser
authors.affiliation: Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Behavioral & Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA.|Division of Behavior Genetics, Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Kristine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marceau
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Penn State University, 141 Moore Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Marielena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Araujo-Greecher
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Jody M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ganiban
authors.affiliation: Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Linda C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Mayes
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.affiliation: Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Reiss
authors.affiliation: Counseling Psychology and Human Services, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
authors.forename: Leslie D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Leve
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008499:Medical Records; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D057566:Self Report
keywords: Adoption; Behavior problems; Genetic; Marital hostility; Medical records; Perinatal; Self-report