Adrenocorticol levels, reactivity, and attunement [electronic resource] : the role of religious and social support / Emily Drake
- Author
- Drake, Emily
- Published
- [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009.
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document (42 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Granger, Douglas A. and Schreyer Honors College
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- Summary
- The present study examined associations between salivary indicators of stress responses and religious and social support using data from the Family Life Project. Main effects of religious social support, social support, mother and infant levels of cortisol, mother and infant cortisol reactivity, and mother and infant levels of α-amylase were the primary variables, and partial correlations were calculated for each of them. Dyads were split at different times into groups of high and low levels of religious social support and social support in general based on the mothers’ survey responses. Analyses revealed that different levels of religious and social support have some differing effects on baseline levels of the stress indicators and on cortisol reactivity in mothers. However, due to some limitations, future study is necessary.
- Other Subject(s)
- Dissertation Note
- B.S. Pennsylvania State University 2009.
- Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Thesis supervisor: Douglas A. Granger. - Reproduction Note
- Library holds archival microfiche negative and service copy. 1 fiche. (PSU Management Services, 2009).
- Technical Details
- The full text of the dissertation is available as a Adobe Acrobat .pdf file ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file.
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