Testosterone and men’s stress responses to gender threats

Autor:	Jennifer Guinn Sellers, Jennifer K. Bosson, Joseph A. Vandello, T. Andrew Caswell
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Gender Studies Social Psychology medicine Gender studies Neuroendocrinology Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Applied Psychology Hydrocortisone medicine.drug Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Psychology of Men & Masculinity. 15:4-11
ISSN:	1939-151X 1524-9220
DOI:	10.1037/a0031394
Popis:	Given findings suggesting that basal testosterone (T) is a biological marker of dominance striving that buffers people against stress, we examined the role of basal T in men’s stress responses (cortisol reactivity) following a private, noncompetitive gender status threat. One-hundred twenty-eight men recruited from a university in the Southeast provided saliva samples both before and 15 minutes after receiving feedback that either threatened or affirmed their gender status. Gender threatening feedback elicited heightened cortisol reactivity among men who were low, but not high, in basal T (interaction f 2 .03). This suggests that men high in T may be buffered from the immediate psychophysiological effects of manhood threats. Discussion considers how these findings add to the literature on basal T and reactions to status threats.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9689ea13db1602f4cfa68554f387a39c https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031394