The Role of Awakening Cortisol and Psychological Distress in Diurnal Variations in Affect: A Day Reconstruction Study

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 524-532

  Daly, Michael ^a   Delaney, Liam ^b   Doran, Peter P ^b   MacLachlan, Malcolm ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Day reconstruction method; Diurnal variation; Positive affect; Psychological distress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; SALIVA; SIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959296385     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022590     Document Type: Article

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