Early social deprivation and the social buffering of cortisol stress responses in late childhood: An experimental study

Developmental Psychology
Camelia E HostinarMegan R Gunnar

Abstract

The goal of the present study was to investigate the role of early social deprivation in shaping the effectiveness of parent support to alleviate hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis-stress responses of children (ages 8.9-11, M = 9.83 years, SD = .55). The sample was equally divided between children who had been adopted internationally from orphanage care by age 5 (n = 40) and an age- and gender-matched group of nonadopted (NA) children (n = 40). On average, internationally adopted children were invited to the laboratory 7.6 years postadoption (SD = 1.45). We experimentally manipulated the provision of parent support during the 5-min speech preparation period before a modified Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and examined its effect on levels of salivary cortisol secreted in response to this laboratory stressor. All participants were randomly assigned to receive support from their parent or a stranger. Analyses revealed a significant interaction of support condition and group such that parent support significantly dampened the cortisol-stress response in NA children compared with support from a stranger, whereas the cortisol response curves of postinstitutionalized (PI) children did not differ between the parent- and strang...Continue Reading

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Jul 31, 2016·Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science·Jerome Kagan
Apr 13, 2017·Development and Psychopathology·Sandra ThijssenMarinus H Van Ijzendoorn
May 26, 2017·Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science·Megan R Gunnar
Jul 18, 2017·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines·Kalsea J Koss, Megan R Gunnar
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Jul 16, 2020·Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science·Karen E Smith, Seth D Pollak
Aug 3, 2019·International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience·Emily B Reilly, Megan R Gunnar
Nov 13, 2019·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Megan R GunnarBradley S. Miller
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