Work/non-workday differences in mother, child, and mother-child morning cortisol in a sample of working mothers and their children

Early Human Development

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Hibel, Leah C ^a   Trumbell, Jill M ^b   Mercado, Evelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attunement; Children; Concordance; Cortisol; Cortisol awakening response; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Mothers; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CORTISOL AWAKENING RESPONSE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTHOOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SALIVA; WORK; WORKING MOTHER; WORKING TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTUNEMENT; CHILDREN; CONCORDANCE; CORTISOL; CORTISOL AWAKENING RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; MOTHERS; SYNCHRONY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; WOMEN, WORKING; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84891740255     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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