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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2010 Nov;46(6):1771–1778. doi: 10.1037/a0020660

Table 5.

Linear Piecewise Modeling Coefficients of Salivary Cortisol During Laboratory Tasks for Children With Disorganized and Organized Attachment Classifications

Effect Coefficient SE t df p
Disorganized attachment classification
    Intercept, β00 –1.25 0.25 –4.95 5 .00
        TASK, β01 0.19 0.39 .49 5 .64
    Slope, β10 –0.01 0.11 –.04 5 .97
        TASK, β11 0.37 0.17 2.09 5 .08
    Slope, β20 –0.42 0.12 –3.70 5 .02
        TASK, β21 0.91 0.15 5.99 5 .00
Organized attachment classification
    Intercept, β00 –0.85 0.16 –5.38 22 .00
        TASK, β01 0.25 0.23 1.12 22 .27
    Slope, β10 –0.18 0.09 –2.10 22 .05
        TASK, β11 0.21 0.13 1.60 22 .12
    Slope, β20 –0.14 0.14 –.97 22 .34
        TASK, β21 0.31 0.20 1.60 22 .12

Note. β00 represents the baseline measure of cortisol obtained at child's arrival to lab; β10 and β20 represent the changes in salivary cortisol across Episode 2 (first lab task) and Episode 3 (second lab task), respectively.