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Wade, Mark; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Buzzell, George A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Nelson, Charles A. – Child Development, 2023
We examined whether family care following early-life deprivation buffered the association between stressful life events (SLEs) and executive functioning (EF) in adolescence. In early childhood, 136 institutionally reared children were randomly assigned to foster care or care-as-usual; 72 never-institutionalized children served as a comparison…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Executive Function, Foster Care, Child Development
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Hanno, Emily C.; McCoy, Dana C.; Sabol, Terri J.; Gonzalez, Kathryn E. – Child Development, 2021
Although professional development is widely used to improve the impacts of early childhood education, little is known about the conditions under which such interventions promote child outcomes. This study applies newly developed methods for quantifying intervention impact heterogeneity to understand whether educators' collective workplace stress…
Descriptors: Child Development, Stress Variables, Faculty Development, Child Care Centers
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Conradt, Elisabeth; Abar, Beau; Lester, Barry M.; LaGasse, Linda L.; Shankaran, Seetha; Bada, Henrietta; Bauer, Charles R.; Whitaker, Toni M.; Hammond, Jane A. – Child Development, 2014
Children chronically exposed to stress early in life are at increased risk for maladaptive outcomes, though the physiological mechanisms driving these effects are unknown. Cortisol reactivity was tested as a mediator of the relation between prenatal substance exposure and/or early adversity on adaptive and maladaptive outcomes. Data were drawn…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Stress Variables, Physiology, Metabolism