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Bien Cuyvers¹, Tsachi Ein-Dor², Melisse Houbrechts¹

¹Clinical Psychology, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.

Developmental psychobiology

|April 30, 2024

概括

催产素受体基因甲基化 (OXTRm) 变化对10岁以后儿童的依恋安全性影响很小. 然而,父母的敏感性变化与OXTRm变化相互作用,随着时间的推移影响了依恋的发展.

科学领域:

发展心理学发展心理学
行为遗传学行为遗传学
分子精神病学分子精神病学

背景情况:

儿童的依恋安全对于社会情感发展至关重要.
表观遗传修饰,如DNA甲基化,越来越多地被认为是基因环境相互作用的调解者.
催产素受体基因 (OXTR) 是一个关键的候选基因,参与社会结合和依恋.

研究的目的:

纵向研究催产素受体基因甲基化 (OXTRm) 的变化如何调节父母敏感性变化和儿童依恋安全性变化之间的关系.
调查这些缓解效应的潜在年龄相关差异.

主要方法:

纵向研究,采用三波数据收集.
六百六名佛兰德儿童 (基线年龄为10-12岁) 和他们的父母参与了这项研究.
措施包括儿童依恋,父母敏感的育儿,以及七个CPG地点的唾液OXTRm.

主要成果:

在10岁以上的儿童中,OXTRm的变化与依恋安全的变化几乎没有直接关联.
在父母敏感度和OXTRm.之间的变化之间观察到显著的相互作用效应.
具体来说,促进区的OXTRm增加和抑制区的甲基化减少,加上父母的敏感性增加,预测了更大的安全依恋和更少的不安全依恋.

结论:

在青春期早期之后,OXTRm的变化似乎在缓解依恋变化方面发挥了有限的作用.
父母的敏感性仍然是一个重要的因素,其对依恋的影响可能由OXTRm变化的特定模式调节.
这些发现突出了基因甲基化,环境因素和依恋发展之间的复杂相互作用.

关键词:

连接方式连接方式连接方式激素激素激素激素激素父母的照顾和照顾.

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