Genetic and environmental sources of implicit and explicit self-esteem and affect: Results from a genetically sensitive multi-group design

Autor(en)

Stefan Stieger, Christian Kandler, Ulrich Tran, Jakob Pietschnig, Martin Voracek

Abstrakt

In today's world, researchers frequently utilize indirect measures of implicit (i.e., automatic, spontaneous) evaluations. The results of several studies have supported the usefulness of these measures in predicting behavior, as compared to utilizing direct measures of explicit (i.e., purposeful, deliberate) evaluations. A current, under-debate issue concerns the origin of these implicit evaluations. The present genetically sensitive multi-group study analyzed data from 223 twin pairs and 222 biological core families to estimate possible genetic and environmental sources of individual differences in implicit and explicit self-esteem and affect. The results show that implicit self-esteem and affect maintain a substantial genetic basis, but demonstrate little influence from the shared environment by siblings (e.g., shared familial socialization in childhood). A bivariate analysis found that implicit and explicit evaluations of the same construct share a common genetic core which aligns with the motivation and opportunity as determinants (MODE) model.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden, Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Konstanz, Universität Bielefeld

Journal

Behavior Genetics

Band

47

Seiten

175-192

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

0001-8244

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-016-9829-8

Publikationsdatum

03-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501021 Sozialpsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Genetics(clinical), Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/61ee2def-a2f1-4fe3-8f6f-9462c1b05603