■难以自我控制,或者以目标导向的方式改变冲动和行为的能力,预测人际冲突,社会经济造诣较低,和更多的不良健康结果。病因学理解,低自我控制的干预是,因此,公共卫生目标。一个突出的发展理论提出,具有低自我控制的高遗传倾向的个体也暴露于压力环境中,可能最有可能处于低水平自我控制的风险。在这里,我们研究与低自我控制标记的行为相关的多基因测量是否与预测自我控制的压力生活事件相互作用。
■利用来自大量基于人口的荷兰样本(N=7,090,Mage=41.2)的分子数据来测试遗传学的影响(即,多动症和攻击性的多基因评分),紧张的生活事件(例如,交通事故,暴力袭击,财务问题),和自我控制上的基因-应激相互作用(用ASEBA自我控制量表测量)。
■遗传学(β=.03-.04,p<.001)和压力性生活事件(β=.11-.14,p<.001)都与个体差异有关自我控制。我们没有发现任何证据表明压力生活事件与成年人自我控制的个体差异有关。
■我们的发现与遗传影响和应激性生活事件对成人自我控制产生很大的独立影响这一观点是一致的。然而,多基因评分的小效应大小增加了空结果的可能性.大样本的遗传知情纵向研究可以进一步揭示从幼儿到成年后期自我控制的个体差异的病因及其对公共卫生的下游影响。
UNASSIGNED: Difficulty with self-control, or the ability to alter impulses and behavior in a goal-directed way, predicts interpersonal conflict, lower socioeconomic attainments, and more adverse health outcomes. Etiological understanding, and intervention for low self-control is, therefore, a public health goal. A prominent developmental theory proposes that individuals with high genetic propensity for low self-control that are also exposed to stressful environments may be most at-risk of low levels of self-control. Here we examine if polygenic measures associated with behaviors marked by low self-control interact with stressful life events in predicting self-control.
UNASSIGNED: Leveraging molecular data from a large population-based Dutch sample (N = 7,090, Mage = 41.2) to test for effects of genetics (i.e., polygenic scores for ADHD and aggression), stressful life events (e.g., traffic accident, violent assault, financial problems), and a gene-by-stress interaction on self-control (measured with the ASEBA Self-Control Scale).
UNASSIGNED: Both genetics (β =.03 -.04, p <.001) and stressful life events (β = .11 -.14, p <.001) were associated with individual differences in self-control. We find no evidence of a gene-by-stressful life events interaction on individual differences in adults\' self-control.
UNASSIGNED: Our findings are consistent with the notion that genetic influences and stressful life events exert largely independent effects on adult self-control. However, the small effect sizes of polygenic scores increases the likelihood of null results. Genetically-informed longitudinal research in large samples can further inform the etiology of individual differences in self-control from early childhood into later adulthood and its downstream implications for public health.