@article{82da93dd131c4c5f99a1dfab62af0135,
title = "Daily parent-adolescent cortisol associations: Unpacking the direction of effects",
abstract = "Prior studies suggest bidirectional relationships between parent and adolescent behavior. This study examined how parents and their adolescent child's cortisol patterns are associated across days and if there are bidirectional associations between parent and child cortisol. Participants included two samples of employees and their children who participated in a daily diary study where diurnal salivary cortisol was collected on four study days (N = 318 dyads, M youth age = 13.18 years, 52 % female). Autoregressive cross-lagged models were used to estimate parent-driven effects (parent cortisol effects on adolescent cortisol) and adolescent-driven effects (adolescent cortisol effects on parent cortisol). Adolescents{\textquoteright} steeper cortisol awakening response (CAR) was significantly associated with parents{\textquoteright} steeper CAR the following day. Adolescents{\textquoteright} higher bedtime cortisol levels were also significantly associated with parents{\textquoteright} higher bedtime cortisol levels the following day. Parents{\textquoteright} cortisol did not predict their children's next-day cortisol. Results support a primarily adolescent-driven process of stress transmission in families. These results suggest that interventions to reduce adolescent stress, as well as to reduce parents{\textquoteright} reactivity to adolescents, may be warranted.",
author = "Lippold, {Melissa A.} and Peter Molenaar and Soomi Lee and Chandler, {Kelly D.} and Almeida, {David M.}",
note = "Funding Information: This study was funded by a R03 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( R03 HD 087611 ). The original Work Family Health Study was conducted as part of the Work, Family and Health Network ( www.WorkFamilyHealthNetwork.org ), which is funded by a cooperative agreement through the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant # U01HD051217 , U01HD051218 , U01HD051256 , U01HD051276 ), National Institute on Aging (Grant # U01AG027669 ), Office of Behavioral and Science Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant # U01OH008788 , U01HD059773 ). Grants from the William T. Grant Foundation , Alfred P Sloan Foundation , and the Administration for Children and Families have provided additional funding. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of these institutes and offices. Special acknowledgement goes to Extramural Staff Science Collaborator, Rosalind Berkowitz King, PhD, and Lynne Casper, PhD, for design of the original Workplace, Family, Health and Well-Being Network Initiative. We also wish to express our gratitude to the worksites, employers, and employees who participated in this research and to Katie Hargreaves o for her assistance with this paper. Full acknowledgements available at http://www.kpchr.org/wfhn . Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104652",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "116",
journal = "Psychoneuroendocrinology",
issn = "0306-4530",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}
