The limitations the ECOT model have been discussed previously (Marceau et al., 2013; Narusyte et al., 2011; Narusyte et al., 2008). It is important to highlight that the ECOT model probes this association at a single time, and does not account for reciprocal associations across development. In the future, the ECOT model should be extended in order to test the mechanisms underlying longitudinal associations (no samples capable of supporting a longitudinal ECOT analysis are currently available). Further, there was a wide age range among our adolescents, and therefore our results represent a mechanism operating across all of adolescence. Given evidence that rGE in family relationships may change with child age (Ulbricht & Neiderhiser, 2009), evocative rGE (i.e., child self-disclosure) may contribute more at specific stages in development, but have been washed out in the current study because of the wide age range. Relatedly, the ECOT model may not be sensitive enough to uncover bidirectional effects of very small magnitude (Narusyte et al., 2008). Although simulation analysis showed that we had adequate power to detect the effects found in this report
