From the Developmental Psychology Journal, the negative genetic tendency of child temperament can either manifest itself or not depends on whether certain situations that activates the environmental conditions are presents (Ge et al., 1996). For example, in studies, children with 7-repeat DRD4 allele who encountered insensitive mothering show more externalizing behaviors such as bullying or physical aggression than did children without the DRD4-7 repeated gene. In addition, children whom experienced sensitive mothering showed the lowest levels of externalizing problems and behaviors (Belsky et al., 2009). Another examples from studies, in adoption cases, adopted children with biological parents whom had a history of criminality tends to displayed criminality in adulthood if adopted to dysfunctional homes it will enables these predispositions (Ge et al., 1996). From Collins et al.’s (2000), their research demonstrated that children with a psychiatrically ill parent who were not subject to any parental mistreatment, compared to those who were, showed very low levels of both externalizing and internalizing problems. That different outcome furthers shows that children temperament was both
From the Developmental Psychology Journal, the negative genetic tendency of child temperament can either manifest itself or not depends on whether certain situations that activates the environmental conditions are presents (Ge et al., 1996). For example, in studies, children with 7-repeat DRD4 allele who encountered insensitive mothering show more externalizing behaviors such as bullying or physical aggression than did children without the DRD4-7 repeated gene. In addition, children whom experienced sensitive mothering showed the lowest levels of externalizing problems and behaviors (Belsky et al., 2009). Another examples from studies, in adoption cases, adopted children with biological parents whom had a history of criminality tends to displayed criminality in adulthood if adopted to dysfunctional homes it will enables these predispositions (Ge et al., 1996). From Collins et al.’s (2000), their research demonstrated that children with a psychiatrically ill parent who were not subject to any parental mistreatment, compared to those who were, showed very low levels of both externalizing and internalizing problems. That different outcome furthers shows that children temperament was both