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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION, SEX HORMONES, QUALITY OF PARENTING AND ADJUSTMENT IN 47,XXY MALES PRIOR TO PUBERTY
Author(s) -
Netley C.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1988.tb00716.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , psychosocial , lateralization of brain function , clinical psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience
This paper reports findings of a study examining the degree to which intelligence, levels of sex‐steroids and gonadotropins, quality of parenting and laboratory‐based measures of left and right hemispheric specialization are associated with individual differences in psychosocial functioning in pre‐pubertal 47, XXY males. The results indicate that activity level and freedom from tendencies towards withdrawal in these subjects are best predicted by the normality of their left hemispheric functioning.