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Variability in diurnal testosterone, exposure to violence, and antisocial behavior in young adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2015

Melissa K. Peckins  and
Elizabeth J. Susman
Melissa K. Peckins*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
Elizabeth J. Susman
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Melissa K. Peckins, Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, 314 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802; E-mail: mkp138@psu.edu.
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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.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 27 , Issue 4pt1 , November 2015 , pp. 1341 - 1352
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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