Testosterone reactivity to provocation mediates the effect of early intervention on aggressive behavior.

ABSTRACT: We tested the hypotheses that the Fast Track intervention program for high-risk children would reduce adult aggressive behavior and that this effect would be mediated by decreased testosterone responses to social provocation. Participants were a subsample of males from the full trial sample, who during kindergarten had been randomly assigned to the 10-year Fast Track intervention or to a control group. The Fast Track program attempted to develop children's social competencies through child social-cognitive and emotional-coping skills training, peer-relations coaching, academic tutoring, and classroom management, as well as training for parents to manage their child's behavior. At a mean age of 26 years, participants responded to laboratory provocations. Results indicated that, relative to

SUBMITTER: Carre JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4278576 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature