Salivary cortisol and interpersonal functioning

Autor: Marije aan het Rot, Mark A. Ellenbogen, Simon N. Young, Sheilagh Hodgins, Jonathan Bruce Santo, Anne-Marie Linnen
Přispěvatelé: Heymans Institute for Psychological Research
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(7), 997-1006. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
ISSN: 0306-4530
Popis: Despite a large body of research in non-human primates, the relationship between naturalistic patterns of social behaviour and basal cortisol levels has been understudied in humans. The present study examined the relationship between patterns of interpersonal functioning and cortisol levels in 23 offspring of parents with bipolar disorder (BD), at high risk for the development of an affective disorder, and 22 offspring of parents with no affective disorder (controls) in late adolescence and young adulthood. Using event-contingent recording, participants rated their dominance, submissiveness, quarrelsomeness, and agreeableness in naturally occurring social interactions over 14 consecutive days and provided salivary cortisol twice daily in the afternoon over the same period. In the full sample, multilevel modelling analyses revealed that dominance was a significant positive predictor of afternoon basal cortisol levels, t((35)) = 2.58, p
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