Mind the Missing NSE Gap: The Influence of Non-shared Environment on Symptoms of Behaviour Problems

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24536
In this Papers Podcast, Aga Gidziela discusses her JCPP paper ‘Explaining the influence of non-shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13729).
There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.
Discussion points include:

• A definition of non-shared environment and examples of non-shared environmental factors.
• A definition of what is meant by the ‘missing NSE gap’.
• The implications of the finding that school environments do not have a major impact with a shared or non-shared environment when it comes to behavioural problem outcomes in adulthood, and that the strongest predictive processes are in fact genetic.
• How can we narrow the missing non-shared environment gap?
• The implications of the findings for child and adolescent mental health professionals, parents, and teachers.

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.