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Author: Coyne, Claire A.
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1. Coyne, Claire A.
Quasi-experimental Approaches to Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Teenage Childbirth
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 2014
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Adolescent Fertility; Age at Birth; Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Birth Order; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Kinship; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Mothers, Behavior; Siblings; Sweden, Swedish

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Study 1 used sibling- and cousin-comparison designs to identify the extent to which putative risk factors are causally associated with teenage childbirth.
Bibliography Citation
Coyne, Claire A. Quasi-experimental Approaches to Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Teenage Childbirth. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 2014.
2. D'Onofrio, Brian M.
Donahue, Kelly L
Coyne, Claire A.
Van Hulle, Carol A.
Rodgers, Joseph Lee
Waldman, Irwin D.
Lahey, Benjamin B.
Early Maternal Age at Childbearing and Offspring Functioning During Adolescence: A Sibling-Comparison Study of Sexual Behavior and Depression
Presented: Minneapolis MN, Behavior Genetics Association Annual Meeting, 2009
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Behavior Genetics Association
Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Age at First Intercourse; CESD (Depression Scale); Depression (see also CESD); Sexual Activity; Siblings

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Offspring born to younger mothers are at increased risk for problems during adolescence across a range of domains. Previous research suggests that the mechanisms responsible for the associations between offspring adjustment and early maternal age at childbearing (MAC) are dependent on the outcomes being explored. The current study used statistical covariates and the comparison of siblings differentially exposed to MAC to account for alternative explanations for the statistical relations with risky sexual behavior and depression during adolescence. The study included 6,056 offspring (ages 14–21) born to a nationally representative sample of women in the US from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and children of the NLSY studies. MAC in the sample ranged from 13- to 34-year-old (M = 23.2). Each increasing year of maternal childbearing was associated with a 14% reduction (OR = 0.86, p\0.001) in the risk of early sexual intercourse (before the age of 14). For instance, offspring born to teenage mothers were 2.46 times more likely to have sex before the age of 14 than offspring born to non-teenage mothers. The association between MAC and early sexual activity remained when controlling for maternal characteristics, such as race/ethnicity, adolescent delinquency, depression, and educational level, and when comparing differentially exposed siblings (OR = .93, p\0.05). Maternal teenage childbearing was also associated with offspring adolescent depression (from ages 14- to 17-year-old), as measured by the CESD (b = -0.04 SD/year at childbearing, p\0.001). The association remained when controlling for maternal covariates and when comparing siblings differentially exposed (b = -0.04 SD/year at childbearing, p\0.001). The results suggest that environmental factors specifically associated with early childbearing account for increased risk of early sexual activity and adolescent depression in offspring.
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D'Onofrio, Brian M., Kelly L Donahue, Claire A. Coyne, Carol A. Van Hulle, Joseph Lee Rodgers, Irwin D. Waldman and Benjamin B. Lahey. "Early Maternal Age at Childbearing and Offspring Functioning During Adolescence: A Sibling-Comparison Study of Sexual Behavior and Depression." Presented: Minneapolis MN, Behavior Genetics Association Annual Meeting, 2009.
3. D'Onofrio, Brian M.
Rickert, Martin E.
Langström, Niklas
Donahue, Kelly L
Coyne, Claire A.
Larsson, Henrik
Ellingson, Jarrod M.
Van Hulle, Carol A.
Iliadou, Anastasia N.
Rathouz, Paul J.
Lahey, Benjamin B.
Lichtenstein, Paul
Familial Confounding of the Association Between Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Substance Use and Problems
Archives of General Psychiatry 69,11 (November 2012): 1140-1150.
Also: http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1389367
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: American Medical Association
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Birth Order; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mothers, Behavior; Mothers, Health; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Siblings; Smoking (see Cigarette Use); Substance Use; Sweden, Swedish

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Objective: To determine the extent to which the association between SDP and offspring substance use/problems depends on confounded familial background factors by using a quasi-experimental design.

Design: We used 2 separate samples from the United States and Sweden. The analyses prospectively predicted multiple indices of substance use and problems while controlling for statistical covariates and comparing differentially exposed siblings to minimize confounding.

Conclusions: The association between maternal SDP and offspring substance use/problems is likely due to familial background factors, not a causal influence, because siblings have similar rates of substance use and problems regardless of their specific exposure to SDP.

Bibliography Citation
D'Onofrio, Brian M., Martin E. Rickert, Niklas Langström, Kelly L Donahue, Claire A. Coyne, Henrik Larsson, Jarrod M. Ellingson, Carol A. Van Hulle, Anastasia N. Iliadou, Paul J. Rathouz, Benjamin B. Lahey and Paul Lichtenstein. "Familial Confounding of the Association Between Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Substance Use and Problems." Archives of General Psychiatry 69,11 (November 2012): 1140-1150.
4. Sujan, Ayesha C.
Rickert, Martin E.
Class, Quetzal
Coyne, Claire A.
Lichtenstein, Paul
Almqvist, Catarina
Larsson, Henrik
Sjölander, Arvid
Lahey, Benjamin B.
Van Hulle, Carol A.
Waldman, Irwin D.
Öberg, A. Sara
D'Onofrio, Brian M.
A Genetically Informed Study of the Associations Between Maternal Age at Childbearing and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes
Behavior Genetics 46,3 (May 2016): 431-456.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-015-9748-0/fulltext.html
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Age at Birth; Alcohol Use; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Birth Order; Birth Outcomes; Birthweight; Cross-national Analysis; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Genetics; Gestation/Gestational weight gain; Kinship; Mothers, Health; Siblings; Substance Use; Sweden, Swedish

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We examined associations of maternal age at childbearing (MAC) with gestational age and fetal growth (i.e., birth weight adjusting for gestational age), using two genetically informed designs (cousin and sibling comparisons) and data from two cohorts, a population-based Swedish sample and a nationally representative United States sample. We also conducted sensitivity analyses to test limitations of the designs. The findings were consistent across samples and suggested that, associations observed in the population between younger MAC and shorter gestational age were confounded by shared familial factors; however, associations of advanced MAC with shorter gestational age remained robust after accounting for shared familial factors. In contrast to the gestational age findings, neither early nor advanced MAC was associated with lower fetal growth after accounting for shared familial factors. Given certain assumptions, these findings provide support for a causal association between advanced MAC and shorter gestational age. The results also suggest that there are not causal associations between early MAC and shorter gestational age, between early MAC and lower fetal growth, and between advanced MAC and lower fetal growth.
Bibliography Citation
Sujan, Ayesha C., Martin E. Rickert, Quetzal Class, Claire A. Coyne, Paul Lichtenstein, Catarina Almqvist, Henrik Larsson, Arvid Sjölander, Benjamin B. Lahey, Carol A. Van Hulle, Irwin D. Waldman, A. Sara Öberg and Brian M. D'Onofrio. "A Genetically Informed Study of the Associations Between Maternal Age at Childbearing and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes." Behavior Genetics 46,3 (May 2016): 431-456.