Cognitive control moderates parenting stress effects on children's diurnal cortisol.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated associations between parenting stress in parents and self-reported stress in children with children's diurnal cortisol secretion and whether these associations are moderated by known stress-regulating capacities, namely child cognitive control. Salivary cortisol concentrations were assessed from awakening to evening on two weekend days from 53 6-to-7-year-old children. Children completed a cognitive control task and a self-report stress questionnaire with an experimenter, while parents completed a parenting stress inventory. Hierarchical, linear mixed effects models revealed that higher parenting stress was associated with overall reduced cortisol secretion in children, and this effect was moderated by cognitive control. Specifically, parenting stress was associated

SUBMITTER: Raffington L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5766146 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature