The role of genetic and environmental factors in covariation between anxiety and anger in childhood.
Anger
Anxiety
Childhood
Twin study
Journal
European child & adolescent psychiatry
ISSN: 1435-165X
Titre abrégé: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9212296
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2021
Apr 2021
Historique:
received:
03
07
2019
accepted:
24
04
2020
pubmed:
10
5
2020
medline:
30
4
2021
entrez:
9
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Higher levels of anger expression, as well as lower levels of anger control, have been reported for adults with anxiety disorders compared to individuals without anxiety disorders. Different to the research on adults, very few studies examined the relationship between anxiety and anger in childhood. In our study, we investigated 398 Italian twin pairs (74 MZ male, 70 MZ female, 134 same-sex dizygotic-53 male, 81 female-, and 120 unlike-sex dizygotic twin pairs), aged 8-17 (mean 13.06 ± 2.59): (i) the heritability of a childhood anger phenotype; (ii) the association between five anxiety domains and anger; (iii) the role of possible common etiological factors in explaining the observed comorbidity and overlap in the risk between anxiety phenotypes and anger. The study demonstrated that anger, assessed by CBCL items, is heritable in children at a similar rate to prior studies (40%). Our research found low to moderate rate of correlation between anger and anxiety (from 0.10 to 0.19). Finally, the present study found that the majority of etiological influences on anxiety and anger are independent of each other. Data showed that shared environmental influences have some small effects on the phenotypic covariation between the anxiety phenotypes and anger (12%); whereas unique environmental influences have an almost negligible effect (1%). Our analyses did not reveal the effect of genetic effects in explaining the covariation between these phenotypes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32382880
doi: 10.1007/s00787-020-01543-2
pii: 10.1007/s00787-020-01543-2
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
607-617Subventions
Organisme : Italian Ministry of Health Finalizzata 2007: Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence
ID : Project no. OAB/F/2000 Grant BO16.1
Organisme : Italian Ministry of University and Research (Project PRIN)
ID : Project PRIN 06/006061953
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