@article{ref1,
title="Childhood adversity, socioeconomic instability, oxytocin-receptor-gene methylation, and romantic-relationship support among young African American men",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2019",
author="Kogan, Steven M. and Bae, Dayoung and Cho, Junhan and Smith, Alicia K. and Nishitani, Shota",
volume="30",
number="8",
pages="1234-1244",
abstract="Men's emerging adult romantic relationships forecast downstream relationship behavior, including commitment and quality. Accumulating evidence implicates methylation of the oxytocin-receptor-gene (<i>OXTR</i>) system in regulating relationship behavior. We tested hypotheses regarding the links between (a) childhood adversity and (b) socioeconomic instability in emerging adulthood on supportive romantic relationships via their associations with <i>OXTR</i> methylation. Hypotheses were tested using path analysis with data from 309 participants in the African American Men's Project. Consistent with our hypotheses, results showed that <i>OXTR</i> methylation proximally predicted changes in relationship support during a 1.5-year period. Childhood adversity was not directly associated with <i>OXTR</i> methylation but, rather, with contemporaneous socioeconomic instability, which in turn predicted elevated <i>OXTR</i> methylation. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that early adversity is indirectly associated with <i>OXTR</i> methylation by links with downstream socioeconomic instability. <br><br>FINDINGS must be considered provisional, however, because preregistered replications are needed to establish more firmly the relations among these variables.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797619854735",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797619854735"
}