ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Sex Moderates the Relation between Internalizing Symptoms and Changes in Cortisol Levels from Preschool to Middle Childhood
- Matthew Caton
University of Maryland, College Park - Lane Williamson
University of Maryland, College Park - Mackenzie Robeson
UMD - Emma Chad-Friedman
University of Maryland, College Park - Leah Sorcher
UMD - Lea Dougherty
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Children’s biological sex moderated the relation between early childhood (ages 3-5) internalizing symptoms and changes in cortisol reactivity from early (ages 3-5) to later childhood (ages 5-9). Higher levels of early childhood internalizing symptoms predicted decreases in cortisol responses to a laboratory stressor for girls but not for boys.
Psychopathology
