Hair cortisol concentration in mothers and their children: roles of maternal sensitivity and child symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Schloß, Susan; Müller, Viola; Becker, Katja; Skoluda, Nadine; Nater, Urs M.; Pauli‐Pott, Ursula

doi:10.1007/s00702-018-1944-7

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“…One recent sample has revealed that sex moderated the association between HCCs and attention, in that HCCs were associated with attention problems in kindergarten boys, but not in girls (Pauli-Pott et al, 2017;Schloß et al, 2018). Together, these studies suggest that contextual experiences of boys and girls differ, and HCCs may operate differently among boys compared to girls.…”

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“…In community samples, higher HCCs have been linked with more maternal‐reported socio‐emotional problems in infants (Palmer et al., 2013) and greater teacher‐reported behavioral problems in elementary and middle school‐aged children (Fuchs et al, 2018), but there have also been null results (Kao, Doan, St. John, Meyer, & Tarullo, 2018). Conversely, lower HCCs have also been linked with more ADHD symptoms in one sample of kindergarten boys (Pauli‐Pott et al., 2017; Schloß et al, 2018). This association was most pronounced among boys with relatively greater psychosocial risk, suggesting that potential links between HCCs and child development may be stronger in contexts of elevated adversity (Pauli‐Pott et al., 2017).…”

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“…Specifically, young boys have higher HCCs compared to girls (Dettenborn, Tietze, Kirschbaum, & Stalder, 2012; Gerber et al., 2017; Grunau et al., 2013; Maurer et al., 2016; Rippe et al., 2016; Simmons et al., 2019). One recent sample has revealed that sex moderated the association between HCCs and attention, in that HCCs were associated with attention problems in kindergarten boys, but not in girls (Pauli‐Pott et al., 2017; Schloß et al, 2018). Together, these studies suggest that contextual experiences of boys and girls differ, and HCCs may operate differently among boys compared to girls.…”

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“…Third, previous studies showed sex differences in mean levels of HCCs, and these differences could confound observed associations between HCCs and cognitive development (Gerber et al., 2017; Simmons et al., 2019). Finally, associations between HCCs and children's development have been observed to vary by sex (Pauli‐Pott et al., 2017; Schloß et al, 2018). In light of this theoretical and empirical evidence that the interplay between family resources, HCCs and cognitive skills may differ between boys and girls, we split the sample by sex, a priori, for analysis .…”

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Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls’ cognitive skills

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Siyal

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Children's stress physiology can shed light on which children are more or less susceptible to contextual experiences (Obradović, 2016). Over the last decade, researchers have identified concentrations of the stress hormone cortisol in the hair shaft as a promising biomarker indexing the long-term, chronic impact of adversity on functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis (Bates, Salsberry, & Ford, 2017). However, links between hair cortisol concentrations (HCCs), adversity, and young children's development have only been tested in a few studies of children from high-income countries. The goal of the present study was to examine whether HCCs were related to cognitive development in preschoolers from rural Pakistan, a lower middle-income country. Furthermore, we examined whether HCCs served as a marker of biological sensitivity to children's family contexts by moderating the effects of family socioeconomic resources at birth on preschoolers' verbal intelligence, pre-academic skills, and executive functions (EFs).

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“…4). To my knowledge, this has previously only been seen between human mothers and their children (166,167). The synchronization was found in both pet and competing dogs, but was stronger among the competing dyads.…”

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Dog behaviour : Intricate picture of genetics, epigenetics, and human-dog relations

Sundman

2019

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Dogs, Canis familiaris, share the lives of humans all over the world. That dogs, and the behaviour of dogs, are of interest to many is therefore no surprise. In this thesis, the main aim has been to identify factors that affect dogs' behaviours. The dog, Canis familiaris, is our first domesticated animal. Since domestication, various types of dogs have developed through adaptation to an environment shared with humans and through our selective breeding, resulting in a unique variation in morphology and behaviour. Although there is an individual variation in the behaviour of dogs, there is also a difference between breeds. Moreover, selection during the last decades has split some breeds into divergent types. Labrador and golden retrievers are divided into a common type, for show and companionship, and a field type, for hunting. By comparing the breed types, we can study the effects of recent selection. In Paper I, we investigate differences in general behavioural traits between Labrador and golden retriever and between common and field type within the two breeds by using results from the standardized behaviour test Dog Mentality Assessment. There were differences between breeds and types for all behavioural traits. However, there was also an interaction between breed and type. Thus, a common/field-type Labrador does not behave like a common/field-type golden retriever. Even though they have been selected for similar traits, the selection has affected the general behavioural traits differently in the two breeds. In paper II, we were interested in dogs' human-directed social skills. Dogs have a high social competence when it comes to humans. Two experiments commonly used to study these skills are the problem-solving test, where dogs' human-directed behaviours when faced with a problem are measured, and the pointing test, where dogs are tested on how well they understand human gestures. We compared the social skills of German shepherds and Labrador retrievers, and of common-and field-type Labradors. Labradors were more successful in the pointing test and German shepherds stayed closer to their owners during the problem solving. Among Labrador types, the field type had more human eye contact than the common type. Importantly, when comparing the two experiments, we found no positive correlations between the problem-solving test and the pointing test, suggesting that the two tests measure different aspects of human-directed social behaviour in dogs. A previous study has identified two suggestive genetic regions for human-directed social behaviours during the problem-solving test in beagles. In paper III, we show that these SNPs are also associated to social behaviours in Labrador and golden retrievers. Moreover, the Labrador breed types differed significantly in allele frequencies. This indicates that the two SNPs have been affected by recent selection and may have a part in the differences in sociability between common and field type. The behaviour of dogs cannot simply be explained by genetics, there is also an enviro...

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Maternal expressive suppression moderates the relations between maternal and child hair cortisol

Doan

Venkatesh

Predroza

et al. 2020

Developmental Psychobiology

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Stress is contagious, influencing multiple domains within a person, as well as other close individuals (Pearlin, Aneshensel, & LeBlanc, 1997), particularly within families (Guajardo, Snyder, & Petersen, 2009; Pearlin et al., 1997; Thoits, 2010). Experiences of stress within mother-child dyads mutually accelerate and reinforce one another (Patterson & McCubbin, 1983). Parents are social regulators of children's emotions (Barthel, Hay, Doan, & Hofmann, 2018). Thus parents' and children's levels of self-reported stress are linked (Compas, Howell, Phares, Williams, & Ledoux, 1989). In addition, mother-child saliva cortisol levels, the end product of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, (HPA), a primary stress response system, are also correlated (Stenius et al.,

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Hair cortisol concentration in mothers and their children: roles of maternal sensitivity and child symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Cited by 17 publications

References 46 publications

Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls’ cognitive skills

Biological sensitivity to context in Pakistani preschoolers: Hair cortisol and family wealth are interactively associated with girls’ cognitive skills

Dog behaviour : Intricate picture of genetics, epigenetics, and human-dog relations

Maternal expressive suppression moderates the relations between maternal and child hair cortisol

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