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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cross-Gender Behavior and Relation to Behavior Problems: A Study of Dutch Twins at Ages 7 and 10 Years

Overview of attention for article published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, November 2006
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Title
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Cross-Gender Behavior and Relation to Behavior Problems: A Study of Dutch Twins at Ages 7 and 10 Years
Published in
Archives of Sexual Behavior, November 2006
DOI 10.1007/s10508-006-9072-0
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Authors

C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt, James J. Hudziak, Dorret I. Boomsma

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cross-gender behavior during childhood, to estimate the influence of genotype and environment on variation in cross-gender behavior, and to explore the association of cross-gender behavior with maternal ratings of behavior problems as indexed by the Internalizing and Externalizing scales of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Cross-gender behavior was assessed by two items from the CBCL: "behaves like opposite sex" and "wishes to be of opposite sex." As part of an ongoing longitudinal study of the Netherlands Twin Registry, mothers were asked to complete the CBCL for their twins when they were 7 (n approximately 14,000 twins) and 10 years old (n approximately 8,500 twins). The prevalence of cross-gender behavior (as measured by maternal report of behaving like or wishing to be the opposite sex) was 3.2% and 5.2% for 7-year-old boys and girls, respectively, and decreased to 2.4% and 3.3% for 10-year-old boys and girls. Surprisingly, the prevalence rate of cross-gender behavior of girls with a male co-twin was lower than of girls with a female co-twin. At both ages, the similarity for cross-gender behavior was greater in monozygotic than in dizygotic twins pairs. Genetic structural equation modeling showed that 70% of the variance in the liability of cross-gender behavior could be explained by genetic factors, at both ages and for both sexes. Cross-gender behavior was associated with higher scores on Internalizing and Externalizing problems, both in boys and in girls.

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Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Sweden 1 1%
Poland 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 82 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 20%
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 10%
Researcher 6 7%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 20 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 17%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Computer Science 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 24 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 July 2023.
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#5,187,578
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#1,746
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#12,349
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Outputs of similar age from Archives of Sexual Behavior
#18
of 39 outputs
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