Cortisol and externalizing behavior in children and adolescents: Mixed meta-analytic evidence for the inverse relation of basal cortisol and cortisol reactivity with externalizing behavior

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 427-450

  Alink, Lenneke R A ^a   van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a   Mesman, Judi ^a   Juffer, Femmie ^a   Koot, Hans M ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Cortisol; Externalizing behavior; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EFFECT SIZE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AGE; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD; CONTROL; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AROUSAL; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 49849097053     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20300     Document Type: Article

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