Genetic and environmental contributions to anxiety among Chinese children and adolescents - a multi-informant twin study

Background Child and adolescent anxiety has become a major public health concern in China, but little was known about the etiology of anxiety in Chinese children and adolescents. The present study aimed to investigate genetic and environmental influences on trait anxiety among Chinese children and a...

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Published in:Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 2015-05, Vol.56 (5), p.586-594
Main Authors: Chen, Jie, Yu, Jing, Li, Xinying, Zhang, Jianxin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age differences
Age Factors
Anxiety
Anxiety - etiology
Anxiety - genetics
Boys
Child
Child psychology
Children
China
Chinese children and adolescents
Data
Environment
Environmental aspects
Environmental Influences
Etiology
Female
Generalizability
genetic and environmental influence
Genetics
Girls
Heritability
Humans
Individual Differences
Male
Parent-child relations
Parents
Parents & parenting
Psychopathology
Public health
Respondents
Self Report
Sex differences
Sex Factors
Trait anxiety
Twin studies
twin study
Twins
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