Child sex moderates the relationship between cortisol stress reactivity and symptoms over time

Daoust, Andrew R.; Kotelnikova, Yuliya; Kryski, Katie R.; Sheikh, Haroon I.; Singh, Shiva M.; Hayden, Elizabeth P.

doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.10.009

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“…Sex differences in prevalence suggest the possibility that women and men differ on average in the degree to which vulnerability processes are present; however, it is also possible that women are more impacted by these vulnerabilities, even in the absence of mean differences (i.e., a sex-by-vulnerability interaction). For example, studies of cognitive risk (e.g., Mezulis et al, 2010 ) show that the longitudinal relationship between stress and depression is stronger for girls than boys, and work from our group ( Daoust et al, 2018 , Kryski et al, 2013 ) indicates that stress reactivity is more strongly associated with internalizing symptoms in girls than boys.…”

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Orbitofrontal cortex grey matter volume is related to children’s depressive symptoms

Vandermeer

Liu

Ali

et al. 2020

NeuroImage: Clinical

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Highlights Healthy children’s orbitofrontal grey matter volume related to depressive symptoms. Maternal depression history is unrelated to children’s brain structure. Sex moderates relationship between orbitofrontal structure and depressive symptoms. Girls have negative orbitofrontal grey mater volume-depressive symptom relationship. Boys have positive orbitofrontal grey matter volume-depressive symptom relationship.

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Orbitofrontal cortex grey matter volume is related to children’s depressive symptoms

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Ali

et al. 2020

NeuroImage: Clinical

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“…In the biological field, the third stage of GAS occurs with the secretion of the hormone that secretes corticotropin, which in turn will stimulate the pituitary gland to release the adrenocorticotropic agent, which acts on the adrenal gland, releasing cortisol [ 21 ].…”

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Well-Being and Stress of Children in Teaching by Digital Means during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case in Santarém, Brazilian Amazonia

Albarado

Lauer-Leite

Carvalho

et al. 2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused and is still causing many infections. An important change brought about by prevention actions was the closing of schools, and the adoption of teaching by digital means in private institutions. In this article, we aim to analyze the subjective well-being and stress of children aged 8 to 12 years in digital education during the COVID-19 pandemic in a city in the Brazilian Amazon. For data collection, we used the Children’s Global Life Satisfaction Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Life Satisfaction for Children (MSLSC), and the Infantile Stress Scale, all via Google Forms. To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistics, correlation between variables and logistic regression. The Family domain obtained higher scores (4.54 ± 0.45). The Infantile Stress Scale showed that the children were in a normal phase, with some of them in an alert and even resistance phase. There was a strong positive correlation between the Family domain (r = 0.70; p-value < 0.05) and the Self domain (r = 0.70; p-value < 0.001). The higher the value of the predictor variable (Family domain), the lower the chances of a child belonging to the Resistance category. Therefore, the Family domain is an important component of children’s well-being, acting as a protective factor against child stress.

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“…Although some prior studies have shown no effect of sex on cortisol reactivity in children aged 9-15 years (e.g., Kudielka et al, 2004), there is also a competing report that 10-12-year-old girls are more highly reactive to a laboratory stressor than boys (Hardie et al, 2002). There are very few studies of preschool-aged children that focus on sex differences, but one study of 3-year olds showed that females but not males, with the lowest cortisol reactivity scores, were more prone to depressive symptoms at 5 years of age (Daoust et al, 2018), suggesting that greater reactivity to laboratory stressors is more normative for females.…”

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A mother's touch: Preschool‐aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch

Scott

Smiley

Ahn

et al. 2022

Developmental Psychobiology

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Positive maternal touch plays an important role in the development of children's physiological regulation and cognitive development in infancy, as well as the development of sociality in early childhood. However, few studies have looked beyond infancy to consider the possible continuing impact of positive maternal touch on child stress reactivity during early childhood. A diverse community sample of mothers (N = 114, M age = 33.52 years, SD = 5.33) and their preschool-aged children (M age = 41.68 months, SD = 4.67; 49.1% female) participated in the study. Basic demographics were reported by mothers. We coded maternal touch behaviors during an emotionally charged laboratory conversation task and assessed children's physiological reactivity to stressful laboratory tasks with salivary cortisol. Results reveal a significant negative association between positive maternal touch and child salivary cortisol reactivity. In addition, family income, adjusted for family size, and child sex were significantly associated with child cortisol stress reactivity. Findings are discussed in terms of persistent downregulating effects of positive maternal touch on child stress reactivity, as well as possible links of stress reactivity with family income, a proxy for economic stress, and child sex.

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Child sex moderates the relationship between cortisol stress reactivity and symptoms over time

Cited by 11 publications

References 82 publications

Orbitofrontal cortex grey matter volume is related to children’s depressive symptoms

Orbitofrontal cortex grey matter volume is related to children’s depressive symptoms

Well-Being and Stress of Children in Teaching by Digital Means during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case in Santarém, Brazilian Amazonia

A mother's touch: Preschool‐aged children are regulated by positive maternal touch

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