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Brown, Eleanor D.; Holochwost, Steven J.; Laurenceau, Jean-Philippe; Garnett, Mallory L.; Anderson, Kate E. – Child Development, 2021
This study deconstructs cumulative risk to probe unique relations to basal cortisol for family income and four distinct aspects of poverty-related instability. Participants were 288 children aged 3-5 years who attended Head Start preschool. Parents reported on poverty risks. Children provided samples of salivary cortisol at four times of day on…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Preschool Children, Poverty, Biochemistry
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Peters, Ellen; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; de Weerth, Carolina – Child Development, 2011
Exclusion and victimization by classmates were related to levels and diurnal change in cortisol in 97 fourth graders (53% boys, M = 9.3 years). Number and quality of friendships were considered as moderators. Salivary cortisol was collected 5 times daily on 2 school days. Excluded children had elevated cortisol levels at school and a flattened…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Groups, Group Dynamics, Grade 4
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Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Howe, Mark L.; Toth, Sheree L. – Child Development, 2010
This investigation examined basic memory processes, cortisol, and dissociation in maltreated children. School-aged children (age range = 6-13), 143 maltreated and 174 nonmaltreated, were administered the California Verbal Learning Test-Children (D. C. Delis, J. H. Kramer, E. Kaplan, & B. A. Ober, 1994) in a week-long camp setting, daily…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Verbal Learning, Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology)