Testosterone is Associated with Perceived Constraint in Early Fatherhood

Waldvogel, Patricia; Ehlert, Ulrike

doi:10.1007/s40750-017-0077-9

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“…We further considered interaction effects with fathers’ stress from experiencing their parenting role as restrictive as well as their emotion regulation. Earlier work indicated that stressors relate to fathers’ higher testosterone levels (Waldvogel & Ehrlert, 2018), and that those with both high testosterone levels and aggressive tendencies may not demonstrate effective emotion regulation (Kaldewaij et al, 2019). However, in concert with SES, we could not identify significant interaction effects with emotion regulation ability or parenting stress.…”

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Testosterone Associations With Parents’ Child Abuse Risk and At-Risk Parenting: A Multimethod Longitudinal Examination

Rodriguez

Leerkes

2020

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The current investigation considered salivary testosterone as a potential biomarker of physical child abuse risk. Parents enrolled in a prospective, longitudinal, multimethod study beginning prenatally provided saliva when their toddlers were 18 months old. Mothers and fathers self-reported on their empathy, frustration tolerance, and child abuse risk, as well as completing analog tasks of frustration intolerance and child abuse risk and participating in structured parent-child interactions. In contrast to mothers, fathers’ higher testosterone levels were associated with increased child abuse risk, less observed positive parenting, more observed negative parenting, and an analog task of frustration intolerance; such findings were reflected across time. Further, fathers’ socioeconomic status moderated the association between testosterone levels and abuse risk. No evidence of partner effects was observed in dyadic analyses. The current findings suggest that higher testosterone levels reflect an increased likelihood that paternal physically abusive behavior may be expressed.

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“…Studies also demonstrate that fathers of young children who experience their paternal role as constraining evidence higher testosterone (Waldvogel & Ehrlert, 2018). Indeed, fathers’ testosterone levels across the transition to parenthood related to later parenting stress (Saxbe, Dunkel Schetter et al, 2017).…”

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Testosterone Associations With Parents’ Child Abuse Risk and At-Risk Parenting: A Multimethod Longitudinal Examination

Rodriguez

Leerkes

2020

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“…In general, a relatively high socioeconomic status was observed, as reflected by the mean education level, with 59% reporting having completed tertiary or higher education. Participants in the sample were relatively healthy, with 91% of participants rating their general health as “outstanding,” “very good,” or “good,” and only 9% considering their health status to be “moderate” or “poor.” Prior published data of this sample can be reviewed here (Ruppen et al, 2016 ; Waldvogel and Ehlert, 2016 , 2017 ).…”

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Emotions and Steroid Secretion in Aging Men: A Multi—Study Report

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Although aging increases the risk of cognitive and socioemotional deterioration, it has also been shown to be accompanied by an increase in experienced positive emotions and a decrease in negative emotions. Steroid hormones and age-related alterations in secretion patterns have been suggested to play a crucial role in these age-related changes in emotional experience. Importantly, previous studies identified effects of neuroactive hormones on age-related alterations in emotional experience, which vary by sex and depression levels. Therefore, in three independent cross-sectional studies including a total of 776 men, we examined age-related differences in emotional experience and subsequently the moderation effect of steroid hormones. Sample one consisted of 271 self-reporting healthy (SRH) men aged between 40 and 75 years, while sample two comprised 121 men in the identical age range but only including vitally exhausted (VE) men. Sample three included 384 men aged between 25 and 78 years who reported having fathered (FA) at least one child. For the SRH men, age was negatively associated with anxiety symptoms and aggression, while negative trends emerged for depressive symptoms. In VE men, age was negatively associated with depressive symptoms and positively associated with aggression and positive emotions. For FA men, anxiety symptoms and aggression were negatively associated with age. Age trends of steroid hormones and identified moderation effects are reported. However, with adjustment for multiple comparisons, most of the significant associations fade and the reported associations need to be regarded as exploratory starting points for the further investigation of age-related alterations in emotional experience and their relation to steroid secretion. Overall, the results indicate that salivary cortisol might be a moderator of the association between age and symptoms of anxiety for SRH and VE men, while salivary testosterone seems to moderate the association between age and symptoms of anxiety or depression in VE and FA men, respectively. Both hair cortisol and progesterone seem to influence age-related alterations in anger experience. Age-related alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis emerge as promising avenues to further investigate the decrease in experienced negative emotions in aging men.

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Testosterone is Associated with Perceived Constraint in Early Fatherhood

Cited by 2 publications

References 56 publications

Testosterone Associations With Parents’ Child Abuse Risk and At-Risk Parenting: A Multimethod Longitudinal Examination

Testosterone Associations With Parents’ Child Abuse Risk and At-Risk Parenting: A Multimethod Longitudinal Examination

Emotions and Steroid Secretion in Aging Men: A Multi—Study Report

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