Adolescent Effects on Mothers’ Bedtime Cortisol: Cognitive Interference as a Mediating Mechanism

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• Personal Author:
  Almeida DM ; Chandler KD ; Lee, Stephen A. ; Lippold MA ; Molenaar P
• Description:
  Prior studies have shown that parent and adolescent cortisol are associated across days and that this covariation may be adolescent-driven. This study extends this literature by (a) testing whether parents' cognitive interference (i.e., distracting and ruminative thoughts potentially due to worry) mediates the linkages between adolescent and next-day parent cortisol and (b) whether these linkages were moderated by parent gender or warmth. Daily diary data, including bedtime cortisol, were collected on two samples of employees and their adolescent-aged children (N = 318 dyads, Myouth age = 13.18 years, 74% mothers). We tested mediation with autoregressive cross-lagged models. Moderated mediation by parent gender was found in our bedtime cortisol models. Higher adolescent bedtime cortisol levels were associated with higher next-day levels of mothers' cognitive interference. In turn, higher levels of mothers' cognitive interference were linked to higher mothers' same-day bedtime cortisol levels. These linkages were not significant for fathers. Cognitive interference did not mediate the associations between child and parent area under the curve or cortisol awakening response. No moderation was evident for parental warmth. Results suggest that mothers' cognitions play a key role in the transmission of elevated bedtime cortisol levels from adolescents to their mothers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Author Keywords: Child Effects Children Cognitive Function Cognitive Interference Cortisol Cortisol Synchrony Daily Diary Study Employees Humans Models Parenting

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• ISSN:
  1532-3005
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; North Carolina ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064081
• Citation:
  Stress Health 2022 Aug; 38(3):509-521
• Contact Point Address:
  Melissa Lippold, The School of Social Work, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tate Turner Kuralt Building, CB #3550, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
• Email:
  mlippold@unc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Stress and Health
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d95c1e9859c905be3599c8c7dcd82540020c1aa3f460447dd79f7798d0615d560b23f1bda41be8f7d97fe0c03eecad4f1026e12e76ddc9d50c1fe83d9afb2fee
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222607/cdc_222607_DS1.pdf
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