SynthesisDevelopmental psychobiology2022
Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Pooled it
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- Biomolecular Pathways Linking Preoperative Chronic Stress to Postoperative Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Noncardiac Surgery.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Hair Cortisol Concentrations in Children: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Childhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Patterns of stress-related change in salivary alpha-amylase and cortisol among young children: Associations with maternal psychosocial risk factors.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Changes in Stress Following Wage Increases for Early Childhood Educators.Early childhood education journal · 2025Article
- Who benefits from active music engagement during cancer treatment? Associations of sociodemographic characteristics and risk factors with moderators of intervention effects.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Interactive roles of preterm-birth and socioeconomic status in cortical thickness of language-related brain structures: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Shifting perspectives and transformative change: Parent perspectives of an active music engagement intervention for themselves and their child with cancer.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2024Article
- Psychological and Physiological Stress and Stressors in Early Childhood Educators: An Observational Pilot Study.Psychology in the schools · 2024Article
- Patterns of toxic stress and trauma for pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT): creating a model of responsive intervention.Journal of psychosocial oncology · 2024Article
- Early Childhood in Marginalized Roma Communities: Health Risks and Health Outcomes.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Unmet Social Needs and Patterns of Hair Cortisol Concentration in Mother-Child Dyads.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
The aim of this systematic review was to better understand whether and to what extent psychosocial stressors are associated with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis or autonomic nervous system stress responses in young children (1-6 years of age). Studies were classified by psychosocial stressors from the ecobiodevelopmental model: social and economic resources, maternal mental health, parent-child relationships, and the physical environment. Of the 2388 identified studies, 32 met full inclusion criteria, including over 9107 children. Child physiologic stress responses were measured as hair and urinary cortisol and cortisone, salivary diurnal and reactive cortisol, salivary reactive alpha-amylase, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia. There were 107 identified relations between psychosocial stressors and physiologic stress responses. Nearly two thirds of these relations suggested that children have dysregulated stress responses as either significantly blunted (n = 27) or increased (n = 37); 43 relations were not significant. Children most consistently had significantly dysregulated stress responses if they experienced postnatal maternal depression or anxiety. Some reasons for the mixed findings may be related to characteristics of the child (i.e., moderators) or stressor, how the stress response or psychosocial stressor was measured, unmeasured variables (e.g., caregiving buffering), researcher degrees of freedom, or publication bias.
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