The role of testosterone in aggressive and non-aggressive risk-taking in adolescent boys
| Autor: | Jean-Marc Kaufman, John Vincke, Hans Vermeersch, Guy T'Sjoen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent medicine.drug_class Psychology Adolescent Poison control Peer Group Behavioral Neuroscience Risk-Taking Endocrinology Sex hormone-binding globulin Reference Values Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin Internal medicine Injury prevention medicine Humans Testosterone Least-Squares Analysis Beta (finance) Estradiol biology Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Aggression Puberty Testosterone (patch) Adolescent Development Luteinizing Hormone Androgen El Niño biology.protein medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Hormones and Behavior. 53:463-471 |
| ISSN: | 0018-506X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.11.021 |
| Popis: | While there exists increasing evidence of a relationship between testosterone (T) and risk-taking (RT), many issues remain unsolved. This paper tries to address two main-questions: (i) does T influence aggressive risk-taking (ART) and/or non-aggressive risk-taking (NART) behavior and (ii) is this relationship stable throughout age and pubertal development and how is the relationship affected by affiliations with peers that are highly involved in RT, referred to as differential association (DA)? For a sample of 301 third-grade adolescent boys (mean age 14.4 years), we assessed the relationship between serum levels of T and estradiol (E2), DA and ART/NART. Significant effects of SHBG (Beta=-0.15; p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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