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Volume 166 - Issue 6 - June 1995

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Papers

  • The Genetic Epidemiology of Self-Esteem

  • Marc-André Roy, Michael C. Neale, Kenneth S. Kendler
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 813-820
  • Background

    Previous studies on self-esteem have focused exclusively on its psychosocial determinants. The goal of the present study is to clarify genetic v. environmental determinants of self-esteem.

    Method

    Participants were Caucasian women sampled from the Virginia Twin Register: 363 pairs of MZ and 238 pairs of DZ twins were available from the first wave of the study, and 430 pairs of MZ and 308 pairs of DZ twins from the second. Self-esteem was assessed with the Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale.

    Results

    Using univariate twin analyses of self-esteem and a repeated measurement twin model, we found that self-esteem is a moderately heritable trait (heritability = 52% in the repeated measurement model); environmental influences are also very important, and are probably mostly not shared by members of a twin pair.

    Conclusions

    Aetiological models of self-esteem which examine only psychosocial factors are incomplete; genetic factors need to be integrated.

Correspondence

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  • Classification of fire-setters

  • H. Prins
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    02 January 2018, p. 821
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  • Thought disorder or communication disorder

  • M. Smith
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    02 January 2018, pp. 821-822
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  • I. C. Macmillan, R. M. Wales
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    02 January 2018, p. 822
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  • Chlorpromazine-induced retinopathy

  • A. C. Mitchell, K. W. Brown
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    02 January 2018, pp. 822-823
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  • Buspirone augmentation of sertraline

  • D. B. Menkes
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    02 January 2018, pp. 823-824
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  • Osteogenesis imperfecta and non-accidental injury

  • H. Minnis, R. Ramsay, P. Ewije, C. Kumar
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    02 January 2018, pp. 824-825
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud

  • A. Karwautz, C. Wöber-Bingöl, C. Wöber
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    02 January 2018, pp. 825-826
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  • Postpartum depression – a specific concept?

  • A. J. Bell, N. M. Land, S. Milne, F. Hassanyeh
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    02 January 2018, p. 826
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  • Personality features in chronic depressive episodes

  • P. Tyrer, N. Seivewright
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    02 January 2018, p. 827
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  • Chinese whispers and the prophylactic effect of cognitive therapy

  • R. Moore
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    02 January 2018, pp. 827-828
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