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Seltzer, Leslie J.; Ziegler, Toni; Connolly, Michael J.; Prososki, Ashley R.; Pollak, Seth D. – Child Development, 2014
Child maltreatment often has a negative impact on the development of social behavior and health. The biobehavioral mechanisms through which these adverse outcomes emerge, however, are not clear. To better understand the ways in which early life adversity affects subsequent social behavior, changes in the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) in children…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Child Abuse, Child Development, Metabolism
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Vigil, Jacob M.; Geary, David C.; Granger, Douglas A.; Flinn, Mark V. – Child Development, 2010
The study examines group and individual differences in psychological functioning and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity among adolescents displaced by Hurricane Katrina and living in a U.S. government relocation camp (n = 62, ages 12-19 years) 2 months postdisaster. Levels of salivary cortisol, salivary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Relocation, Depression (Psychology), Coping
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Eiden, Rina D.; Veira, Yvette; Granger, Douglas A. – Child Development, 2009
This study examined the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and reactivity at 7 months of infant age. Participants were 168 caregiver-infant dyads (87 cocaine exposed, 81 not cocaine exposed; 47% boys). Maternal behavior, caregiving instability, and infant growth and behavior were assessed,…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Prenatal Influences, Prenatal Care, Drug Abuse