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Title: Genetic and Shared Environmental Contributions to the Relationship between the Home Environment and Child and Adolescent Achievement
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1. Cleveland, Hobart Harrington
Jacobson, Kristen C.
Lipinski, John J.
Rowe, David C.
Genetic and Shared Environmental Contributions to the Relationship between the Home Environment and Child and Adolescent Achievement
Intelligence 28,1 (February 2000): 69-86.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028969900029X
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Genetics; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Modeling; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Siblings

The present study used prospective data to examine the relationship between the family environment (as measured by the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment-Short Form [HOME-SF]) and child and adolescent achievement, and to determine the genetic and environmental contributions to this relationship. Data are from 2108 full- and half-sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Child data set (NLSY-Child). The average age of participants was 11.9 for older siblings (SD = 3.0) and 8.2 for younger siblings (SD = 2.8). The structural equation modeling program, Mx, was used to obtain the most precise estimates of genetic and environmental contributions to variation in the HOME-SF, variation in achievement, and to the covariation between the HOME-SF and achievement. According to the best-fitting, most parsimonious model, common genetic factors explained approximately one-quarter of the correlation between the HOME-SF and achievement, whereas common shared environmental factors explained the majority (75%) of this relationship. Genetic influences also accounted for over one-third of the variation in both the HOME-SF and achievement. Shared environmental influences explained 35% and 50% of the variation in achievement and the HOME-SF, respectively. The discussion mentions possible mechanisms by which genetic and environmental factors exert their influence on the relationship between the HOME-SF and achievement.
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Cleveland, Hobart Harrington, Kristen C. Jacobson, John J. Lipinski and David C. Rowe. "Genetic and Shared Environmental Contributions to the Relationship between the Home Environment and Child and Adolescent Achievement." Intelligence 28,1 (February 2000): 69-86.