Do testosterone and cortisol levels moderate aggressive responses to peer victimization in adolescents?
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2024-05
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Aggressive reactions to peer victimization may be tempered by hormone levels. Grounded on the dualhormone hypothesis (DHH), which proposes that testosterone (T) is associated with aggressive behavior only when cortisol (C) is low, this study assessed whether the combination of T and C moderated adolescents' aggressive responses to peer victimization. The study involved 577 adolescents (50.4% girls, aged 12-17 years), who completed measures of online and offline victimization and perpetration of aggressive behavior in three waves over the course of one year. Moreover, they provided salivary samples to measure T and C levels. Multilevel analyses showed a three-way interaction between T, C, and victimization levels for both online and offline aggressive behaviors. In both cases, the adolescents with high T and high C or low T and low C responded with more aggressive behaviors when victimized or provoked by peers. The T/C ratio was only associated with aggressive behavior in the girls' sample. The results are opposite to those predicted by the DHH, but they are consistent with the findings of other studies that examined aggressive behaviors as reactions to provocations. These results suggest that some combinations of T and C predict higher aggressive reactions to peer victimization.
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Adolescents
Aggressive behavior
Cortisol
Testosterone
Victimization
Aggressive behavior
Cortisol
Testosterone
Victimization
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Calvete, E., & Orue, I. (2024). Do testosterone and cortisol levels moderate aggressive responses to peer victimization in adolescents? Development and psychopathology, 36(2), 624-635. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422001456