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Pubertal maturation and sex steroids are related to alcohol use in adolescents

de Water, Erik, Braams, Barbara R., Crone, Eveline A., Peper, Jiska S.·2013·Hormones and Behavior

Abstract

Adolescents often show risk-taking behavior, including experimentation with alcohol. Previous studies have shown that advanced pubertal maturation is related to increased alcohol use in adolescents, even when controlling for age. Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of this relation between pubertal maturation and alcohol use. The goal of the present study was twofold. In Experiment 1, we investigated whether advanced pubertal maturation is associated with higher levels of alcohol use, when controlling for age. To this end, questionnaires on pubertal development and alcohol use were administered to a large sample of 797 Dutch adolescents (405 boys) aged 11-16 years. In Experiment 2, we explored whether sex steroids contribute to this relation between pubertal maturation and alcohol use by examining the association between salivary sex steroid levels and alcohol use in 168 adolescents (86 boys). It was found that, when controlling for age, advanced pubertal maturation is related to increased alcohol use in adolescent boys and girls. Controlling for age, higher testosterone and estradiol levels correlated with the onset of alcohol use in boys. In addition, higher estradiol levels were associated with a larger quantity of alcohol use in boys. Correlations between sex steroids and alcohol use were not significant in girls. These findings show that advanced pubertal maturation is related to advanced alcohol use, and that higher sex steroid levels could be one of the underlying mechanisms of this relation in boys. Sex steroids might promote alcohol use by stimulating brain regions implicated in reward processing.

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  • Salivary testosterone assay intra-assay coefficients of variation were 11% and 4% at 10 and 140 pmol/L, and interassay coefficients of variation were 8% and 5% at 31 and 195 pmol/L.

    “Intra-assay coefficients of variation were 11% and 4% at 10 and 140 pmol/L, respectively, and interassay coefficients of variation were 8% and 5% at 31 and 195 pmol/L, respectively (de Water et al., 2013).”
  • More advanced pubertal status in adolescents is associated with greater involvement in sensation-seeking-related behaviors such as substance use, law-breaking, and laboratory risk taking.

    “recent studies have found that more advanced pubertal status in adolescents is associated with greater involvement in behaviors that are closely related to sensation seeking, such as substance use (Castellanos-Ryan et al., 2013, de Water et al., 2013, Gunn and Smith, 2010), law-breaking (Collado et al., 2014, Kretschmer et al., 2014), and risk taking in laboratory contexts (Collado et al., 2014, K”

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Authors
de Water, E., Braams, B. R., Crone, E. A., & Peper, J. S.
Affiliations
Leiden University (NL)
Venue
Hormones and Behavior
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-02
Volume
63
Issue
2
Pages
392-397
ISSN
0018-506X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2048345897
Cited by
56
References
56
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 2
FWCI
4.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Hormones and Behavior (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Universiteit Leiden
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
pubertal development, adolescent alcohol use, sex steroids, testosterone, estradiol, salivary hormone levels, age at onset of drinking, alcohol consumption quantity, sex differences, risk-taking, reward processing
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Alcohol Drinking, Child, Female, Humans, Intelligence Tests, Male, Puberty, Surveys and Questionnaires, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Sexual Maturation, Cohort Studies

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