No place like home: Home tours correlate with daily patterns of mood and cortisol

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-81

  Saxbe, Darby E ^a   Repetti, Rena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Psychophysiology; Relational factors in health; Stress; Well being

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLASSIFICATION; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SALIVA; SATISFACTION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALIVA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72749091478     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209352864     Document Type: Article

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