ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2016
Individual variation in fathers' testosterone reactivity to infant distress predicts parenting behaviors with their 1-year-old infants.
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- The Role of Paternal Involvement on Behavioral Sensitive Responses and Neurobiological Activations in Fathers: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Hormonal and behavioral responses to an infant simulator in women with and without children.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Adrenocortical interdependence in father-infant and mother-infant dyads: Attunement or something more?Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Testosterone Associations With Parents' Child Abuse Risk and At-Risk Parenting: A Multimethod Longitudinal Examination.Child maltreatment · 2021Article
- Adult attachment and testosterone reactivity: Fathers' avoidance predicts changes in testosterone during the strange situation procedure.Hormones and behavior · 2019Article
- Comparing Postnatal Development of Gonadal Hormones and Associated Social Behaviors in Rats, Mice, and Humans.Endocrinology · 2018Review
- High paternal testosterone may protect against postpartum depressive symptoms in fathers, but confer risk to mothers and children.Hormones and behavior · 2017Article
- Testosterone and reproductive effort in male primates.Hormones and behavior · 2017Review
- Prospective and dyadic associations between expectant parents' prenatal hormone changes and postpartum parenting outcomes.Developmental psychobiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Positive father involvement is associated with positive child outcomes. There is great variation in fathers' involvement and fathering behaviors, and men's testosterone (T) has been proposed as a potential biological contributor to paternal involvement. Previous studies investigating testosterone changes in response to father-infant interactions or exposure to infant cues were unclear as to whether individual variation in T is predictive of fathering behavior. We show that individual variation in fathers' T reactivity to their infants during a challenging laboratory paradigm (Strange Situation) uniquely predicted fathers' positive parenting behaviors during a subsequent father-infant interaction, in addition to other psychosocial determinants of paternal involvement, such as dispositional empathy and marital quality. The findings have implications for understanding fathering behaviors and how fathers can contribute to their children's socioemotional development.
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