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Contributed by Sara S. McLanahan, June 30, 2013 (sent for review May 2, 2013)
Abstract
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study examined the effects of the Great Recession on maternal harsh parenting. We found that changes in macroeconomic conditions, rather than current conditions, affected harsh parenting, that declines in macroeconomic conditions had a stronger impact on harsh parenting than improvements in conditions, and that mothers’ responses to adverse economic conditions were moderated by the DRD2 Taq1A genotype. We found no evidence of a moderating effect for two other, less well-studied SNPs from the DRD4 and DAT1 genes.
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: mclanaha{at}princeton.edu, dohoon.lee{at}nyu.edu, or ig3{at}columbia.edu.
Author contributions: D.L., J.B.-G., S.S.M., D.N., and I.G. designed research; D.L., J.B.-G., S.S.M., D.N., and I.G. performed research; D.L. and D.N. analyzed data; and D.L., J.B.-G., S.S.M., D.N., and I.G. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1312398110/-/DCSupplemental.
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Recession, genetic sensitivity, and harsh parenting
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