With an eye toward informing future intervention development, the EGDS has been focused on four primary aims. The first aim is to examine specific parenting and family environmental processes that mediate the expression of genetic influences on children's internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, social competence, and school performance. We designed the EGDS to test whether genetically influenced child behaviors that evoke specific parenting practices could be identified (evocative rGE) and would subsequently amplify child behavior and affect child adjustment. The second aim is to examine specific parenting processes and contextual factors that moderate genetic influences on children's internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, social competence, and school performance. A set of specific parenting behaviors (e.g., harsh or noncontingent parenting) and contextual factors (e.g., adoptive parents' marital relations) are measured to assess the extent to which they moderate genetic risk and protective influences on internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, social competence, and school performance (G×E interaction) during early childhood, amplifying child outcomes over time. The third aim is to identify the mechanisms of G×E interaction. We focus on dyadic interactions between the adoptive parent and
