Preschoolers' everyday conflict at home and diurnal cortisol patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Early life family conflict is associated with physical health problems later in life, but little is known about the biological pathways through which conflict at home exerts it deleterious effects on health. The goal of this study was to investigate the associations between naturalistically assessed conflict in everyday family environments and diurnal cortisol in preschool-aged children.

Design

Forty-four children aged 3-5 from two-parent families provided six saliva samples per day over 2 days from a Saturday morning through Sunday night. For a full day on either Saturday or Sunday, children wore a child version of the Electronically Activated Recorder, a digital voice recorder that records ambient sounds while participants go about their daily lives. Parents prov

SUBMITTER: Slatcher RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3404203 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature