Psychological Development and Education ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 532-538.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2016.05.03

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Impact of Trier Social Stress Test on Children Salivary Cortisol Secretion

CHEN Guanghui, KONG Yanhong   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • Online:2016-09-15 Published:2016-09-15

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Abstract: Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is a widely used psychosocial stress paradigm conducted in laboratory setting which has been shown to reliably elicit a physiological stress response in various study samples. However, no study to date has investigated the responses to the TSST in Chinese children sample. Therefore, in the present study, healthy boys and girls (n=32, mean age=10.47) performed the modified TSST protocol according to Chinese children, during which the subjective stress level and salivary cortisol level were assessed. The results showed that participants exhibited a significant increase in salivary cortisol, and reported more anxiety immediately following the TSST compared to baseline. Furthermore, while boys and girls differ with respect to salivary cortisol to TSST, boys generated higher levels of salivary cortisol compared to girls. The findings demonstrated that the modified TSST is a protocol with good applicability in Chinese children participants and could be used to conduct psychosocial stress research in China.

Key words: trier social stress test, child, saliva cortisol

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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