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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Coping Styles: A Twin Study

Andreas Busjahn, PhD, Hans-Dieter Faulhaber, MD, Kristina Freier, MD and Friedrich C. Luft, MD

From the Franz Volhard Clinic, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical Faculty of the Charité, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.



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Fig. 1. Bivariate path model that decomposes the phenotypic variance and covariance for two given phenotypes, for example, two different coping styles, into additive genetic (Ac) and environmental (Ec) contributions that are common to both phenotypes and factors that are specific to one phenotype only, that is, additive genetic (As) and environmental (Es) contributions.

 





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