Genetic Influences on Sibling Bullying and Mental Health Difficulties

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.28979
In this Papers Podcast, Dr. Umar Toseeb discusses his JCPP paper ‘Genetic influences on sibling bullying and mental health difficulties’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13956).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• Insight into the dataset used in the study (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children).
• The reason behind the focus on sibling bullying and the prevalence rates of sibling bullying.
• Sibling bullying and genetic risk for mental health difficulties as additively associated with mental health difficulties.
• The lack of moderation effect of genetic risk for mental health difficulties on the relationship between sibling bullying and mental health difficulties.
• Insight into the ‘Diathesis stress model’.
• Sibling bullying and mental health difficulties as co-occurring, in part, due to shared genetic influences.
• Potential implications of the research.

In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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