Citation

Peckins MK, Susman EJ. Dev. Psychopathol. 2015; 27(4 Pt 1): 1341-1352.

Affiliation

Pennsylvania State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S095457941400145X

PMID

26439079

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to provide evidence of an association between within-person variability in diurnal testosterone over 1 year, lifetime exposure to violence, and the manifestation of antisocial behavior in 135 pubertal-aged adolescents across 1 year. Adolescents' sex and lifetime history of violence exposure moderated the association between within-person variability in diurnal testosterone and antisocial behavior. Furthermore, sex-stratified analyses revealed that lifetime history of exposure to violence moderated the association between within-person variability in diurnal testosterone and antisocial behavior in females only. This report is unique in that it illuminates sex differences in within-person associations among exposure to violence, individual variability in diurnal testosterone, and antisocial behavior.

Language: en