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PMID
18828736
TITLE
Phenotypic, genetic, and environmental properties of the portrait values questionnaire.
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to examine the 10 value types from the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ; Schwartz et al., 2001) both at the phenotypic (observed) level as well as the genetic and environmental level. Australian twins (N = 695) completed the PVQ as part of a larger questionnaire battery. Nine of the value types were found to have a genetic component with heritability estimates ranging from 10.8% for power to 38% for conformity. The achievement scale was best explained by environmental factors. The interscale correlations were found to range from -.02 to .70 at the phenotypic level. Of these 45 correlations, 16 were found to be explained by overlapping genetic factors and almost all (41) were found to have significant unique environment correlations.
DATE PUBLISHED
2008 Oct
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2008/10/03 09:00
medline 2009/08/27 09:00
entrez 2008/10/03 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Schermer JA Schermer Julie Aitken JA Management and Organizational Studies, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, Canada. jharris@uwo.ca
Feather NT Feather N T NT
Zhu G Zhu Gu G
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 11
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res Hum Genet
YEAR: 2008
MONTH: Oct
DAY:
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1832-4274
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1832-4274
NLMUNIQUEID: 101244624
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Behavior
Female
Humans
Male
Portraits as Topic
Psychological Tests
Questionnaires
Twins, Dizygotic psychology
Twins, Monozygotic psychology
Young Adult psychology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's