Evans & Kim (2007)

Participants

200 seven year olds.

Section

Health Study

Key Words - how to remember

Poor Children Stressed

Procedure

Researchers measured blood pressure and cortisol levels. Stress regulation was assessed by measurement of the hearts reactivity to a standard acute stressor and recovery after the exposure to the stressor.

Results

Results showed that there was a positive correlation between long term exposure to a social risk factors on physiological measures of stress. A greater number of years of spent living in poverty correlated with more elevated cortisol levels and more problems for the heart to recover after exposure to the stressor.

Connection

Social Aspects of Stress

Aim

To investigate the long term relationship between poverty or low socioeconomic stars, cumulative risk factors, and physiological stress.