In a second study focused on undergraduate students (n=247) and anxiety,31 but this time concerned with (retrospectively reported) emotional abuse in childhood, a G × E interaction once more emerged, with genotype importantly proving unrelated to the environmental predictor and the outcome, anxiety sensitivity. The significantly steeper abuse–anxiety slope in the case of students homozygous for short alleles relative to those with one or more long alleles indicated that s/s individuals scored highest in anxiety sensitivity when exposed to abuse and lowest when not exposed.
