PSYC 414 Chapter Notes -Child Care, Playtime, Cortisol
2 Oct 2011
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Morning-to-afternoon increases in cortisol concentrations for infants and. Toddlers at child care: age differences and behavioral correlates. Settings: care centers evaluated using ecers, median score = 5. 34, range of 4. 2 to 6. 8, one of classrooms received average scores on ecers, other classrooms scored in good to excellent range. Measures: behavior, aggregate behavior codes, distress: percentage of intervals child was coded as crying during at least. Cortisol is using : cortisol assays performed in duplicates on 50-100 microlitres of saliva, samples excluded if insufficient saliva available to reassay (when samples from same child were assayed in same batch) Discussion: key findings, curvilinear developmental course for rising cortisol levels in full-day, center- based child care settings. Increases in cortisol across child care day over infancy period, peak in toddler period, then decrease and diminish by early school years: non-child care days, at home, age-related pattern is not observed.
