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Testosterone of young husbands rises with children in the home
Author(s) -
Mazur A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
andrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.947
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 2047-2927
pISSN - 2047-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00164.x
Subject(s) - hum , testosterone (patch) , developmental psychology , psychology , variation (astronomy) , demography , social psychology , medicine , sociology , endocrinology , art , physics , performance art , astrophysics , art history
Summary Evolutionary theory suggests that a man's testosterone (T) decreases after his fathering of children, when his priority shifts from mating to cooperative parenting ( Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Parental Behavior , 2010). A variation in this theory has T decreasing for highly educated fathers but increasing for less educated fathers ( Evol Hum Behav , 33, 2012, 665). The Vietnam Experience Study of 4462 male army veterans is here used to explore related hypotheses: (i) that T decreases with the presence (or increasing number) of children in the man's home and (ii) that the T rises or falls depending on father's education. These related hypotheses are not supported. To the contrary, among young fathers, ages 30–35 years, T is higher with the presence and number of children in the home, independent of education.