TY  - JOUR
A1  - Raffington, Laurel
A1  - Schmiedek, Florian
A1  - Heim, Christine
A1  - Shing, Yee Lee
T1  - Cognitive control moderates parenting stress effects on children's diurnal cortisol
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - This study investigated associations between parenting stress in parents and self-reported stress in children with children's diurnal cortisol secretion and whether these associations are moderated by known stress-regulating capacities, namely child cognitive control. Salivary cortisol concentrations were assessed from awakening to evening on two weekend days from 53 6-to-7-year-old children. Children completed a cognitive control task and a self-report stress questionnaire with an experimenter, while parents completed a parenting stress inventory. Hierarchical, linear mixed effects models revealed that higher parenting stress was associated with overall reduced cortisol secretion in children, and this effect was moderated by cognitive control. Specifically, parenting stress was associated with reduced diurnal cortisol levels in children with lower cognitive control ability and not in children with higher cognitive control ability. There were no effects of self-reported stress in children on their cortisol secretion, presumably because 6-to-7-year-old children cannot yet self-report on stress experiences. Our results suggest that higher cognitive control skills may buffer the effects of parenting stress in parents on their children’s stress regulation in middle childhood. This could indicate that training cognitive control skills in early life could be a target to prevent stress-related disorders.
KW  - Cortisol
KW  - Secretion
KW  - Psychological stress
KW  - Cognitive impairment
KW  - Parenting behavior
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Heart
KW  - Cognition
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45571
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-455716
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2018 Raffington et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 13
IS  - (1): e0191215
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -