Adult attachment and testosterone reactivity: Fathers' avoidance predicts changes in testosterone during the strange situation procedure

Edelstein, Robin S.; Chin, Kristi; Saini, Ekjyot K.; Kuo, Patty X.; Schultheiss, Oliver C.; Volling, Brenda L.

doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.01.009

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“…Our study already indicated that highereducated fathers had lower CORT during an interaction with their toddler (see Table 3). Other studies, for example, point in the direction of romantic relationship quality and adult attachment orientation as factors that are associated with individual differences in parental T concentrations during pregnancy and parent-infant interactions (Chin et al, 2020;Edelstein et al, 2019). Such investigations are important in unravelling the hormonal bases of human parental care.…”

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Cortisol and testosterone concentrations during the prenatal and postpartum period forecast later caregiving quality in mothers and fathers

Beijers

Breugelmans²,

Brett

et al. 2022

Hormones and Behavior

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cortisol and testosterone concentrations during the prenatal and postpartum period forecast later caregiving quality in mothers and fathers

Beijers

Breugelmans²,

Brett

et al. 2022

Hormones and Behavior

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“…There are limitations to the present study that merit attention. As we have discussed in past work from this study, our sample sizes of fathers were relatively small compared to some studies of paternal psychobiology in industrialized settings in more highly populated societies 72,[79][80][81][82] . However, we also note that our pooled analyses (n = 45) and BaYaka sample size (n = 29) compare favorably to other recent work in this area 25,72 , especially research in similar societies 39 .…”

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Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin

Gettler

Lew‐Levy

Sarma

et al. 2020

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Humans are rare among mammals in exhibiting paternal care and the capacity for broad hyper-cooperation, which were likely critical to the evolutionary emergence of human life history. In humans and other species, testosterone is often a mediator of life history trade-offs between mating/competition and parenting. There is also evidence that lower testosterone men may often engage in greater prosocial behavior compared to higher testosterone men. Given the evolutionary importance of paternal care and heightened cooperation to human life history, human fathers’ testosterone may be linked to these two behavioral domains, but they have not been studied together. We conducted research among highly egalitarian Congolese BaYaka foragers and compared them with their more hierarchical Bondongo fisher-farmer neighbors. Testing whether BaYaka men’s testosterone was linked to locally-valued fathering roles, we found that fathers who were seen as better community sharers had lower testosterone than less generous men. BaYaka fathers who were better providers also tended to have lower testosterone. In both BaYaka and Bondongo communities, men in marriages with greater conflict had higher testosterone. The current findings from BaYaka fathers point to testosterone as a psychobiological correlate of cooperative behavior under ecological conditions with evolutionarily-relevant features in which mutual aid and sharing of resources help ensure survival and community health.

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“…Previous reports from this study have also focused on hormonal variation across parents and infants in the 12-month laboratory visit, including patterns of infants' cortisol responses based on the security of their attachment relationships with both fathers and mothers (Kuo et al, 2019), individual variation in fathers' testosterone across the visit and associations with fathering behaviors during fatherinfant interactions (Kuo et al, 2016), and parents testosterone reactivity during parent-infant interaction related to parents' adult attachment orientation (Edelstein et al, 2019). The current report builds on these previous studies by investigating cortisol interdependence and attunement between mothers and infants, and then attempting to replicate these findings with fathers and infants.…”

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Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?

Bader

Tan

Gonzalez

et al. 2021

Developmental Psychobiology

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Father-infant and mother-infant (one-year-olds) adrenocortical attunement was explored during the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) among 125 father-infant and 141 mother-infant dyads. Cortisol was assessed at baseline (T1), 20 (T2), and 40 minutes (T3) after the first parent-infant separation. Initial correlations indicated significant associations between father-infant and mother-infant cortisol at each time. Cortisol interdependence was further explored using Actor-Partner Interdependence Models.There was no evidence supporting cortisol interdependence based on within-time residual correlations between parent-infant cortisol, once stability and cross-lagged paths were controlled. Infant cortisol at T2 predicted T3 cortisol for fathers and mothers resulting in a series of follow-up exploratory analyses to examine mediating processes which revealed that infant distress during the SSP predicted infant T2 cortisol, which, in turn, predicted infant negativity during the 15-min mother-infant teaching task that followed the SSP. Among father-infant dyads, infant T2 cortisol predicted infant negativity during father-infant interaction, with infants expressing more negativity having less sensitive fathers. Findings provide little support of parent-infant adrenocortical attunement across either father-infant or mother-infant dyads during the SSP, but preliminary evidence indicates infant distress as a potential mediator.Future research may want to focus on affective and behavioral processes that underlie the concept of parent-infant adrenocortical attunement.

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Adult attachment and testosterone reactivity: Fathers' avoidance predicts changes in testosterone during the strange situation procedure

Cited by 7 publications

References 66 publications

Cortisol and testosterone concentrations during the prenatal and postpartum period forecast later caregiving quality in mothers and fathers

Cortisol and testosterone concentrations during the prenatal and postpartum period forecast later caregiving quality in mothers and fathers

Sharing and caring: Testosterone, fathering, and generosity among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin

Adrenocortical interdependence in father‐infant and mother‐infant dyads: Attunement or something more?

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