A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem

Bleidorn W, Hufer A, Kandler C, Hopwood CJ, Riemann R (2018)
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 32(3): 221-232.

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Bleidorn, Wiebke; Hufer, Anke; Kandler, Christian; Hopwood, Christopher J.; Riemann, RainerUniBi
Abstract / Bemerkung
Twin studies suggest that both genes and environments influence the emergence and development of individual differences in self-esteem. However, different lines of research have emphasized either the role of genes or of environmental influences in shaping self-esteem, and the pathways through which genes and environments exert their influence on self-esteem remain largely unclear. In this study, we used nationally representative data from over 2000 German twin families and a nuclear twin family design (NTFD) to further our understanding of the genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in self-esteem. Compared with classical twin designs, NTFDs allow for finer-grained descriptions of the genetic and environmental influences on phenotypic variation, produce less biased estimates of those effects, and provide more information about different environmental influences and gene-environment correlation that contribute to siblings' similarity. Our NTFD results suggested that additive and non-additive genetic influences contributed to individual differences in self-esteem as well as environmental influences that are both shared and not shared by twins. The shared environmental component mostly reflected non-parental influences. These findings highlight the increased sensitivity afforded by NTFDs but also remaining limitations that need to be addressed by future behavioural genetic work on the sources of self-esteem. Copyright (c) 2018 European Association of Personality Psychology
Stichworte
self-esteem; additive and non-additive genetic effects; twins; nuclear; twin family design
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Zeitschriftentitel
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
Band
32
Ausgabe
3
Seite(n)
221-232
ISSN
0890-2070
eISSN
1099-0984
Page URI
https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2920956

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Bleidorn W, Hufer A, Kandler C, Hopwood CJ, Riemann R. A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY. 2018;32(3):221-232.
Bleidorn, W., Hufer, A., Kandler, C., Hopwood, C. J., & Riemann, R. (2018). A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, 32(3), 221-232. doi:10.1002/per.2136
Bleidorn, Wiebke, Hufer, Anke, Kandler, Christian, Hopwood, Christopher J., and Riemann, Rainer. 2018. “A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem”. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 32 (3): 221-232.
Bleidorn, W., Hufer, A., Kandler, C., Hopwood, C. J., and Riemann, R. (2018). A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 32, 221-232.
Bleidorn, W., et al., 2018. A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, 32(3), p 221-232.
W. Bleidorn, et al., “A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem”, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, vol. 32, 2018, pp. 221-232.
Bleidorn, W., Hufer, A., Kandler, C., Hopwood, C.J., Riemann, R.: A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY. 32, 221-232 (2018).
Bleidorn, Wiebke, Hufer, Anke, Kandler, Christian, Hopwood, Christopher J., and Riemann, Rainer. “A Nuclear Twin Family Study of Self-Esteem”. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 32.3 (2018): 221-232.
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