Longitudinal effects of family psychopathology and stress on pubertal maturation and hormone coupling in adolescent twins.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents experience profound neuroendocrine changes, including hormone "coupling" between cortisol, testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone. Emerging research has only begun to elucidate the role of hormone coupling, its genetic and environmental etiology, and the extent to which coupling is impacted by gender, puberty, and family context. We included measures on parent and child mental health, parenting stress, and family conflict of 444 twin pairs and their parents across two timepoints, when youth were on average 8 and 13 years old, respectively. Structural equation models examined the impact of family context effects on coupling during adolescence. Biometric twin models were then used to probe additive genetic, shared, and non-shared environmental effects on hormone coupling. Hormo

SUBMITTER: Phan JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7914297 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature