Cortisol patterns at home and child care: Afternoon differences and evening recovery in children attending very high quality full-day center-based child care

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 475-485

  Watamura, Sarah E ^a   Kryzer, Erin M ^b   Robertson, Steven S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child care; Cortisol; Early childhood; Quality; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349256112     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2008.12.027     Document Type: Article

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