Research Interests
Jenae Neiderhiser is interested in understanding the interplay between
genes and environment throughout the lifespan. The environmental influences
that she has examined most closely are interpersonal relationships –
including parent-child, spouse, sibling and peer relationships. Examining
how individuals influence their environments, in part because of their
genetically-influenced characteristics (genotype-environment correlation),
has long been a focus of her work. The studies that have been used to
examine these research questions include the following three sets of studies.
The Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) project and
the Young Adult Sibling Study (YASS) is a longitudinal study of 720 twin
and sibling pairs in two parent families with both parents and both twins/siblings
participating followed from when the twins/siblings were in middle adolescence
to young adulthood. The Twin/Offspring Study in Sweden (TOSS) is a study
of 909 pairs of twins who are parents of at least one adolescent child
and includes twin parents, one child per twin and the spouse/partner of
the twin. Finally, the Early Growth and Development Study is a prospective,
longitudinal study of 559 sets of adopted children, their adoptive families
and birth parents. All of these studies include extensive assessment of
the environment within the household, interpersonal relationships, adult
and child adjustment, temperament and personality and other related measures.
DNA has also been collected or will be collected for these samples.
Recent publications
Ge, X., Natsuaki, M.N., Neiderhiser, J.M. & Reiss, D. (in press). Genetic and environmental influences on pubertal timing: Results from two national sibling studies. Journal of Research in Adolescence.
Narusyte, J., Andershed, A.-K., Neiderhiser, J.M. & Lichtenstein, P. (in press). Aggression as a mediator of genetic contributions to the association between negative parent-child relationships and adolescent antisocial behavior. Journal of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Neiderhiser, J.M., Reiss, D., Lichtenstein, P., Spotts, E.L., & Ganiban, J. (in press). Father-adolescent relationships and the role of genotype-environment correlation. Journal of Family Psychology.
Ulbricht, J.A. & Neiderhiser, J.M. (in press). Genotype-environment correlation and family relationships. In Y.-K. Kim (Ed.), Handbook of Behavioral Genetics.
Feinberg, M.E., Button, T.M.M., Neiderhiser, J.M., Hetherington, E.M. & Reiss, D. (2007). Parenting and adolescent antisocial behavior and depression: Evidence for genotype x parenting environment interaction. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 457-465.
Ganiban, J.M., Spotts, E.L., Lichtenstein, P., Khera, G., Reiss, D. & Neiderhiser, J.M. (2007). Can genetic factors explain the spillover of warmth and negativity across family relationships? Twin Research and Human Genetics, 10 (2), 299-313.
Leve, L.D., Neiderhiser, J.M., Ge, X., Scaramella, L.V., Conger, R.D., Reid, J.B., Shaw, D.S. & Reiss, D. (2007). The early growth and development study: A prospective adoption design. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 10 (1), 84-95.
Neiderhiser, J.M., Reiss, D. & Hetherington, E.M. (2007). The Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development Project: A longitudinal family study of twins and siblings from adolescence to young adulthood. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 10 (1), 74-83.
Ialongo, N.S., Rogosch, F.A., Cicchetti, D., Toth, S.L., Buckley, J., Petras, H., & Neiderhiser, J.M. (2006). A developmental psychopathology approach to the prevention of mental health disorders. In D. Cicchetti & D.J. Cohen, (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Theory and Methods (Vol 1, pp. 968-1018).
