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Title: Behavior Genetics and Adolescent Development: A Review of Recent Literature
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1. Rodgers, Joseph Lee
Bard, David E.
Behavior Genetics and Adolescent Development: A Review of Recent Literature
In: Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence. G. Adams and M. Berzonsky, eds., Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, June 2003.
Also: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_chapter/063121920X/001.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Family Environment; Family Influences; Genetics; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Kinship; Modeling, Biometric; Psychological Effects; Siblings

Introduction to Chapter 1: Behavior genetics is a quantitative method, and adolescent development is a psychological topic. Treating the cross between these two arenas appears, at the surface, to require collecting research in which the method has been applied to study the topic, and reviewing that research for coherence and common themes. But the challenge is rather more difficult than the surface level view might suggest. Below the surface is a great deal of shifting sand, which makes organizing the topic difficult. Because of this instability, it is critical that we carefully and explicitly define a foundational starting point. In the introduction to this article, we begin with some definitions, and then we describe the difficulties inherent in reviewing "behavior genetics and adolescent development." We conclude our introduction with a summary of the foundation on which we will base our review. In the next section, we carefully build that foundation. Following, we summarize the relevant research, and embed it within the organizational foundation.
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Rodgers, Joseph Lee and David E. Bard. "Behavior Genetics and Adolescent Development: A Review of Recent Literature" In: Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence. G. Adams and M. Berzonsky, eds., Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, June 2003.