Do testosterone and cortisol levels moderate aggressive responses to peer victimization in adolescents?

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dc.contributor.authorCalvete Zumalde, Esther
dc.contributor.authorOrue Sola, Izaskun
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-13T11:23:59Z
dc.date.available2025-03-13T11:23:59Z
dc.date.issued2024-05
dc.date.updated2025-03-13T11:23:59Z
dc.description.abstractAggressive 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by a grant from the Spanish Government (Ref. PSI2015-68426-R) and from the Basque Country (IT1532-22)en
dc.identifier.citationCalvete, 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
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0954579422001456
dc.identifier.eissn1469-2198
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2521
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rights© The Author(s), 2023
dc.subject.otherAdolescents
dc.subject.otherAggressive behavior
dc.subject.otherCortisol
dc.subject.otherTestosterone
dc.subject.otherVictimization
dc.titleDo testosterone and cortisol levels moderate aggressive responses to peer victimization in adolescents?en
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage635
oaire.citation.issue2
oaire.citation.startPage624
oaire.citation.titleDevelopment and psychopathology
oaire.citation.volume36
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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