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Child's stress hormone levels correlate with mother's socioeconomic status and depressive state

Lupien, Sonia J, King, Suzanne, Meaney, Michael J, McEwen, Bruce S·2000·Biological Psychiatry

DOI 10.1016/s0006-3223(00)00965-3

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Background Individuals with lower socioeconomic status report greater exposure to stressful life events and a greater impact of these events on their lives than individuals with higher socioeconomic status, and this relationship between socioeconomic status and health begins at the earliest stages of life. To extend on these results, we performed a psychoneuroendocrine study of 217 children and 139 mothers.Methods Salivary cortisol levels and cognitive function were assessed in children, and a semistructured phone interview measuring symptoms of stress and depression was conducted with their mothers.Results Children with low socioeconomic status present significantly higher salivary cortisol levels than children with high socioeconomic status, and this socioeconomic status effect emerges as early as age 6. We also report that a child's cortisol level is significantly correlated with his or her mother's extent of depressive symptomatology.Conclusions These results offer a neurobiological determinant to the well-known association between socioeconomic status and health that begins early in life.

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Authors: Lupien, S. J., King, S., Meaney, M. J., & McEwen, B. S.
Affiliations: Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CA)
Rockefeller University (US)
Corresponding author: Lupien, Sonia J
ORCID: Lupien, Sonia J
King, Suzanne
Meaney, Michael J
McEwen, Bruce S
Venue: Biological Psychiatry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2000-11
Volume: 48
Issue: 10
Pages: 976-980
ISSN: 0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3223(00)00965-3
OpenAlex: W2047909845
Cited by: 532
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 41
FWCI: 3.53
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords: socioeconomic status, salivary cortisol, childhood stress, maternal depression, depressive symptoms, psychoneuroendocrinology, cognitive function, early childhood, stress hormones
MeSH terms: Age Factors, Canada, Child, Depressive Disorder, Female, Hormones, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Male, Saliva, Social Class, Stress, Psychological

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