Given that parental caregiving quality affects child development from birth onwards, it is
important to detect parents who are at risk for low-quality caregiving as early as possible …

Testosterone and cortisol have both been implicated in human parenting behavior. We
investigated the relations between observed quality of caregiving during parent-child …

Objective. The quality of parental caregiving has been shown to affect children's
development from birth onward. Therefore, it is important to detect parents at risk for low …

Background Previous work has shown that early experience influences infant cortisol
secretion. Few studies, however, have examined associations between parenting quality …

Variation in the quality of parental care has a tremendous impact on a child's social–
emotional development. Research investigating the predictors of this variability in human …

Background Emerging evidence suggests that antenatal exposure to maternal stress signals
affects the development of the infant stress response systems. Animal studies indicate that …

In previous studies, a higher quality of care-giving behavior reduced the cortisol response to
acute stressors in infants aged 3 months and older. Here, we investigated whether the …

The present study examined testosterone (T) and cortisol (Cort) in fathers engaged with
caregiving. We collected saliva samples in the mornings and evenings of two consecutive …

The present study examined whether stress in professional caregivers–as reflected in
salivary cortisol levels–is related to the quality of their caregiving behavior. The 221 …

The steroid testosterone (T) and neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) have each been implicated in
the development of parental care in humans and animals, yet very little research addressed …