Application Assignment Week 1 AW: Entering the Research Process

Application Assignment: Entering the Research Process

                                                      Student Name: Angie Woods             

Article Title: Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care

The research article that I was interesting in was Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care. The article goes into brief detail about teacher child relationships were examined as predictors of cortisol change in preschool children. In the article Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care, Saliva for assays was collected from one hundred and ninety one 4-year-olds (101 boys) in the mornings and afternoons on 2 days at child care, and before and after a series of challenging tasks and a teacher-child interaction session outside the classroom. Also in the article parents reported on children’s temperament, teachers and children reported on teacher child relationship quality, and observers rated group-level teacher insensitivity. Then how teacher reported relationship conflict predicted cortisol increases during teacher child interaction and teacher reported overdependence predicted cortisol increases from morning to afternoon, even after controlling for individual teacher, child, and classroom characteristics. The findings extend earlier work by suggesting that cortisol change across the child care day is influenced by teacher child relationship characteristics. The article Children’s Cortisol and the Quality of Teacher Child Relationships in Child Care the article had three different tables in how Correlations Among Cortisol and Relationship, Child, and Classroom Variables. Try to show a more of an aspect of how much of a range teacher reported overdependence predicted cortisol increase of teacher rate of group level teacher insensitivity. I just feel like now day’s children are very out of control. Times has changed a lot from the 60’s 80’s parents was a whole lot different like the old saying,” It takes a village to raise a child “You had seen a difference in children too. Compared to how the children are now you really can’t trust people the way you use too neither.

References List

1.     http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/

2.     Article: Lisonbee, J. A., Mize, J., Payne, A. L., & Granger, D. A. (2008). Children’s cortisol and the quality of teacher–child relationships in child care. Child Development, 79(6), 1818–1832. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Academic Search Complete database. Elevated Cortisol levels can be a symptom of anxiety or other stress. The focus of this study was to find out what may influence a change in Cortisol levels in very young children.