Daily Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: Testing the Anticipation Hypothesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Powell, Daniel J ^a   Schlotz, Wolff ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTISOL AWAKENING RESPONSE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE STRESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; SALIVA CORTISOL LEVEL; SALIVA LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP QUALITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALIVA; SLEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84871442202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052067     Document Type: Article

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