The relative importance of family socioeconomic status and school-based peer hierarchies for morning cortisol in youth: An exporatory study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1246-1253

  West, Patrick ^a   Sweeting, Helen ^a   Young, Robert ^a   Kelly, Shona ^b  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Health inequalities; Psychoneuroendocrine response; School peer group; Scotland; Social hierarchies; Socioeconomic status (SES); Stress; UK; Youth

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ENDOCRINOLOGY; HORMONE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; YOUNG POPULATION;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PEER GROUP; SALIVA; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SPORTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77950042979     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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