@article{7366a8e5103248e1aa033776c24ed90a,
title = "Childhood sexual abuse and impulsive personality traits: Mixed evidence for moderation by DRD4 genotype",
abstract = "This project examines associations between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and two dimensions of impulsivity (sensation seeking and premeditation), and tests whether CSA-personality associations are moderated by the DRD4 exon III VNTR polymorphism. Sample 1 is from a longitudinal study of university students measured at 10 waves over ages 18-24. years (n=500). Sample 2 is from a national sample of young adult sibling pairs, ages 18-24, from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n=2559). In both samples, CSA was associated with elevated sensation seeking. In Sample 1, the association between CSA and sensation seeking was moderated by DRD4 genotype; this gene. ×. environment interaction effect, however, was not replicated in Sample 2. Results suggest new avenues for research on CSA in the area of normal-range personality variation.",
keywords = "Childhood sexual abuse, DRD4, Diathesis stress, Differential susceptibility, Gene-environment interaction, Impulsivity, Sensation seeking",
author = "Harden, {K. Paige} and Carlson, {Marie D.} and Natalie Kretsch and William Corbin and Kim Fromme",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by Grant 1-R01-AA020637 to Dr. Kim Fromme, Grant 1-R21-AA020588 to Dr. Paige Harden, Grant 5-R24-HD042849 to the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and Grant T32-AA07471 to the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research. Funding Information: This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and funded by Grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due to Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website ( http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth ). No direct support was received from Grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis. ",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.jrp.2014.12.005",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "55",
pages = "30--40",
journal = "Journal of Research in Personality",
issn = "0092-6566",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}