Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women

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Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Gonçalo A.
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Uceda, Sara, Oliveira, Tânia, Fernandes, Alexandre, Garcia-Marques, Teresa, Oliveira, Rui F.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/469
Resumo: Social interactions elicit androgen responses whose function has been posited to be the adjustment of androgen-dependent behaviors to social context. The activation of this androgen response is known to be mediated and moderated by psychological factors. In this study we tested the hypothesis that the testosterone (T) changes after a competition are not simply related to its outcome, but rather to the way the subject evaluates the event. In particular we tested two evaluative dimensions of a social interaction: familiarity with the opponent and the subjective evaluation of the outcome as threat or challenge. Challenge/threat occurs in goal relevant situations and represent different motivational states arising from the individuals' subjective evaluation of the interplay between the task demands and coping resources possessed. For challenge the coping resources exceed the task demands, while threat represents a state where coping resources are insufficient to meet the task demands. In this experiment women competed in pairs, against a same sex opponent using the number tracking test as a competitive task. Losers appraised the competition outcome as more threatening than winners, and displayed higher post-competition T levels than winners. No differences were found either for cortisol (C) or for dehydroepiandrosterone. Threat, familiarity with the opponent and T response were associated only in the loser condition. Moderation analysis suggests that for the women that lost the competition the effect of threat on T is moderated by familiarity with the opponent.
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spelling Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in womenchallengecognitive appraisalcompetitionfamiliaritytestosteronethreatSocial interactions elicit androgen responses whose function has been posited to be the adjustment of androgen-dependent behaviors to social context. The activation of this androgen response is known to be mediated and moderated by psychological factors. In this study we tested the hypothesis that the testosterone (T) changes after a competition are not simply related to its outcome, but rather to the way the subject evaluates the event. In particular we tested two evaluative dimensions of a social interaction: familiarity with the opponent and the subjective evaluation of the outcome as threat or challenge. Challenge/threat occurs in goal relevant situations and represent different motivational states arising from the individuals' subjective evaluation of the interplay between the task demands and coping resources possessed. For challenge the coping resources exceed the task demands, while threat represents a state where coping resources are insufficient to meet the task demands. In this experiment women competed in pairs, against a same sex opponent using the number tracking test as a competitive task. Losers appraised the competition outcome as more threatening than winners, and displayed higher post-competition T levels than winners. No differences were found either for cortisol (C) or for dehydroepiandrosterone. Threat, familiarity with the opponent and T response were associated only in the loser condition. Moderation analysis suggests that for the women that lost the competition the effect of threat on T is moderated by familiarity with the opponent.FCT grant: (RG-LVT-331-2352), FCT PhD fellowship (SFRH/BD/68528/2010).Frontiers Research FoundationARCAOliveira, Gonçalo A.Uceda, SaraOliveira, TâniaFernandes, AlexandreGarcia-Marques, TeresaOliveira, Rui F.2015-11-04T11:13:34Z2013-07-052013-07-05T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/469engOliveira GA, Uceda S, Oliveira T, Fernandes A, Garcia-Marques T and Oliveira RF (2013) Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women. Front. Psychol. 4:389. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.0038910.3389/fpsyg.2013.00389info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-11-29T14:34:51Zoai:arca.igc.gulbenkian.pt:10400.7/469Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:11:44.837431Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
title Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
spellingShingle Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
Oliveira, Gonçalo A.
challenge
cognitive appraisal
competition
familiarity
testosterone
threat
title_short Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
title_full Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
title_fullStr Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
title_full_unstemmed Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
title_sort Threat perception and familiarity moderate the androgen response to competition in women
author Oliveira, Gonçalo A.
author_facet Oliveira, Gonçalo A.
Uceda, Sara
Oliveira, Tânia
Fernandes, Alexandre
Garcia-Marques, Teresa
Oliveira, Rui F.
author_role author
author2 Uceda, Sara
Oliveira, Tânia
Fernandes, Alexandre
Garcia-Marques, Teresa
Oliveira, Rui F.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv ARCA
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Oliveira, Gonçalo A.
Uceda, Sara
Oliveira, Tânia
Fernandes, Alexandre
Garcia-Marques, Teresa
Oliveira, Rui F.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv challenge
cognitive appraisal
competition
familiarity
testosterone
threat
topic challenge
cognitive appraisal
competition
familiarity
testosterone
threat
description Social interactions elicit androgen responses whose function has been posited to be the adjustment of androgen-dependent behaviors to social context. The activation of this androgen response is known to be mediated and moderated by psychological factors. In this study we tested the hypothesis that the testosterone (T) changes after a competition are not simply related to its outcome, but rather to the way the subject evaluates the event. In particular we tested two evaluative dimensions of a social interaction: familiarity with the opponent and the subjective evaluation of the outcome as threat or challenge. Challenge/threat occurs in goal relevant situations and represent different motivational states arising from the individuals' subjective evaluation of the interplay between the task demands and coping resources possessed. For challenge the coping resources exceed the task demands, while threat represents a state where coping resources are insufficient to meet the task demands. In this experiment women competed in pairs, against a same sex opponent using the number tracking test as a competitive task. Losers appraised the competition outcome as more threatening than winners, and displayed higher post-competition T levels than winners. No differences were found either for cortisol (C) or for dehydroepiandrosterone. Threat, familiarity with the opponent and T response were associated only in the loser condition. Moderation analysis suggests that for the women that lost the competition the effect of threat on T is moderated by familiarity with the opponent.
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