Evening Activities as a Potential Confound in Research on the Adrenocortical System in Children

Autor/inn/en	Kertes, Darlene A.; Gunnar, Megan R.
Titel	Evening Activities as a Potential Confound in Research on the Adrenocortical System in Children
Quelle	In: Child Development, 75 (2004) 1, S.193-204 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00663.x
Schlagwörter	Social Isolation; Children; Recreational Activities; Athletics; Stress Variables; Metabolism; Physiology; Child Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Isolation; Child; Kind; Kinder; Freizeitgestaltung; Leichtathletik; Stoffwechsel; Physiologie
Abstract	The relation among children's evening activities, behavioral characteristics, and activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis was assessed in normally developing children ages 7 to 10 years. Salivary cortisol at bedtime was compared on evenings when children had structured activities outside of the home with unstructured evenings at home in relation to parental reports of children's behavioral characteristics. Participating in evening activities, particularly sport activities, was associated with small increases in bedtime cortisol levels in boys but not in girls. Differences in cortisol on activity versus no-activity nights were negatively related to children's social isolation. These results show that in studies with children, nights on which participants engage in sport activities should be avoided when collecting ambulatory measures of salivary cortisol concentrations. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10