DO PARENTS MATTER IN CREATING SELF-CONTROL IN THEIR CHILDREN? A GENETICALLY INFORMED TEST OF GOTTFREDSON AND HIRSCHI'S THEORY OF LOW SELF-CONTROL*

By J. Wright, Kevin M. Beaver. 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Epidemiology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. M. Delisi
2. Kevin M. Beaver
3. C. Gibson
4. J. Wright
5. J. C. Barnes
6. M. Vaughn
7. M. Ratchford
8. C. Ferguson

In Epidemiology

1. M. Delisi
2. C. Gibson
3. Kevin M. Beaver
4. J. Wright
5. M. Vaughn
6. J. C. Barnes
7. C. Ferguson
8. M. Ratchford

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. M. Delisi
2. Kevin M. Beaver
3. C. Gibson
4. J. C. Barnes
5. J. Wright
6. C. Ferguson
7. M. Vaughn
8. B. Boutwell

Citations in the corpus

• Evidence of Negligible Parenting Influences on Self‐Control, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency in a Sample of Twins (2008, background): “Recent analyses by Wright and Beaver (2005) , however, call into question whether these findings are subject to substantial misspecification bias, since they exclude within-family genetic relatedness.”
• Genetic and Environmental Influences on Levels of Self-Control and Delinquent Peer Affiliation (2009, background): “This problem, however, is not unique to the current study; many prior studies examining the effect parents have on the development of self-control did not include all of the parenting dimensions outlined by Gottfredson and Hirschi (Unnever et al., 2003; J. P. Wright & Beaver, 2005).”
• It's time: A meta-analysis on the self-control-deviance link (2017, background): “An additional area of controversy about self-control theory involves how self-control develops (Wright & Beaver, 2005).”
• Self-Control as an Executive Function (2007, methodology): “We followed the lead of past research analyzing the ECLS-K and focused on data collected in kindergarten and first grade (Beaver & Wright, 2005; Wright & Beaver, 2005).1 Given that the sample size was extremely large, 15% of the entire sample was selected at random.”
• Genetic influences on the stability of low self-control: Results from a longitudinal sample of twins (2008, background): “The current findings and those of many other studies, however, indicate the shared environment has relatively little effectonpersonalitydevelopment(Cohen,1999;J.R.Harris,1995, 1998, 2006; Pinker, 2002; Rowe, 1994; Wright & Beaver, 2005 ).”
• Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap in school suspensions (2014, methodology): “The SSRS scales have been used in a number of prior studies examining self-control and analogous problembehaviors (Beaver & Wright, 2007; Lamont & Van Horn, 2013; Vaughn, DeLisi, Beaver, & Wright, 2009; Wright & Beaver, 2005).”
• Gender, Self-Control, and Offending Behaviors Among Latino Youth (2011, background): “Gottfredson and Hirschi deny the notion that people are born criminals or inherit genes for criminality; although genetic links are now being studied (Unnever, Cullen, & Pratt, 2003; Wright & Beaver, 2005).”
• “Does It Take a Village?” Assessing Neighborhood Influences on Children’s Self-Control (2010, background): “Finally, although some studies have collapsed indirect and direct controls into single measures, they still find that parenting is related to self-control (Feldman and Weinberger 1994; Hay and Forrest 2006; Perrone et al. 2004; Zhou et al. 2004).”
• Natural born killers: The genetic origins of extreme violence (2009, background): “…and behavioral genetics approaches to violence have appeared in leading criminological and psychological journals, including APA journals with increasing frequency (e.g., Caspi et al., 2004; Ellis, 1991; Ellis & Walsh, 1997; Larsson, Andershed, & Lichtenstein, 2006; Wright & Beaver, 2005).”