P.112 Effect of early paternal caregiving and genotype rs25531 polymorphisms on the adult relationship with the partner

• Main Authors: Bonassi, A., Cataldo, I., Tandiono, M., Foo, J. N., Lepri, B., Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Adult Social Interactions; Genotype rs25531
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146951
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Adult social interactions are regulated by the mental representation of self and behavioural expectation from the others. Specifically, early interactions with parents affect social experience throughout a lifetime, as a repeated and prolonged perception of different levels of care, independence or control influences the modulation of emotional regulatory processes. Although environmental factors, like early parent-child bonding, affect adult significant social interactions, intrinsic biological predispositions could play a pivotal role in modulating the degrees of susceptibility to the external social context, especially in a sensitive temporal frame like childhood [1]. Among the multiple genetic variants, features related to parenting assets and recalled attachment could be associated with a region of the serotonin transporter gene, namely 5HTT rs25531 [2].