Genetic and Environmental Influences on Multiple Dimensions of Religiosity A Twin Study
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Multiple Dimensions of Religiosity A Twin Study
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DOI：
10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181f4a07c
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Kendler, Kenneth S.
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作者：
Vance, Todd;Maes, Hermine H.;Kendler, Kenneth S.
近年来，对宗教信仰的研究重新引起了科学界的兴趣，包括对宗教信仰的遗传和环境贡献的研究。在这篇文章中，我们调查了遗传和环境对7个宗教信仰因素的影响，并探讨了遗传和环境的影响如何在这些因素中相互作用。从78个项目中估计的7个宗教信仰因素进行了检查，在成年男性和女性双胞胎的样本。7个宗教信仰因子主要受加性遗传效应和独特环境效应的影响，受共同环境效应的影响相对较小。多变量遗传分析发现，7个宗教信仰因素受到1个共同的加性遗传因素，3个共同的独特环境因素和每个宗教信仰因素特有的独特环境效应的影响。结果表明，对于所研究的人群，加性遗传和独特的环境效应在很大程度上解释了宗教信仰结构的差异。
In recent years there has been a renewed scientific interest in the study of religiosity, including research on genetic and environmental contributions to religiosity. In this article, we investigate genetic and environmental effects on 7 religiosity factors and explore how genetic and environmental effects covary across these factors. Seven religiosity factors estimated from 78 items were examined in a sample of adult male and female twins. The 7 religiosity factors were largely influenced by additive genetic and unique environmental effects, with relatively little influence from common environmental effects. Multivariate genetic analyses found the 7 religiosity factors were influenced by 1 common additive genetic factor, 3 common unique environmental factors, and unique environmental effects specific to each religiosity factor. The results suggest that for the population studied, additive genetic and unique environmental effects largely account for the variance across the religiosity construct.