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- Title
Genetic Influence on Family Systems: Implications for Development.
- Authors
Reiss, David
- Abstract
The article describes connections between genetic processes and family systems. It depicts how new findings in genetics may give a clearer idea of the role that families play in the differences among people: differences in healthy and adaptive development and differences in pathological and maladaptive development. It provides some new data, some of it yet unpublished, from behavioral genetic research. It goes somewhat beyond the data currently available, and lay out some very preliminary speculations about genes, families, and development. It discusses two important trends in the study of human development. The first of these is an increasing emphasis on individual differences in development rather than on stages or transitions in development that are common across individuals. The second trend is increasing attention to biological factors that shape changes in individuals across title and that account for differences in the rates and patterns of change. It discusses the centrality of genetics as a link between psychosocial and biological modes of though about development.
- Subjects
INHERITANCE of acquired characters; FAMILIES; GENETICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY &; genetics; BEHAVIOR genetics; HEREDITY
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1995, Vol 57, Issue 3, p543
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/353911