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Examining change in cortisol patterns during the 10-week transition to a new child-care setting.
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- Transition to Preschool: Paving the Way for Preschool Teacher and Family Relationship-Building.Child & youth care forum · 2023Article
- Do toddlers' levels of cortisol and the perceptions of parents and professional caregivers tell the same story about transition from home to childcare? A mixed method study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Developmental pathways from preschool irritability to multifinality in early adolescence: the role of diurnal cortisol.Psychological medicine · 2021Article
- Child Care in Times of COVID-19: Predictors of Distress in Dutch Children and Parents When Re-entering Center-Based Child Care After a 2-Month Lockdown.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Toddlers' diurnal cortisol levels affected by out-of-home, center-based childcare and at-home, guardian-supervised childcare: comparison between different caregiving contexts.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2020Article
- Perceived Barriers to Fruit and Vegetable Gardens in Early Years Settings in England: Results from a Cross-Sectional Survey of Nurseries.Nutrients · 2019Article
- Childhood otitis media: Relationship with daycare attendance, harsh parenting, and maternal mental health.PloS one · 2019Article
- Social Buffering of Stress in Development: A Career Perspective.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2017Review
- Transition to Kindergarten: Negative Associations between the Emotional Availability in Mother-Child Relationships and Elevated Cortisol Levels in Children with an Immigrant Background.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Salivary cortisol and cognitive development in infants from low-income communities.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2017Article
- The relationship between childcare and adiposity, body mass and obesity-related risk factors: protocol for a systematic review of longitudinal studies.Systematic reviews · 2016Article
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Abstract
The transition to out-of-home child care brings a number of challenges for children, including complex peer interactions and extended separations from parents. Children often show a midmorning to afternoon rise in cortisol on child-care days, compared to the typical diurnal decline seen at home. Changes in cortisol were examined in a wide age range of children (N = 168; 1.2 months to 8 years, M = 3.27 years) during the 10-week transition to a new child-care setting. Structural equation modeling using latent change scores showed that children experienced an increase in the cortisol rise at child care across the 10-week transition. Furthermore, child age moderated the difference between home- and child-care cortisol patterns. Findings are placed in a developmental context, and potential implications and future directions are discussed.
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