TABLE 3.
Children’s Positive Attitudes Toward School
| Attachment | Emotional reaction | Low cortisol
|
Normative cortisol
|
High cortisol
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | s.d. | M | s.d. | M | s.d. | ||
| Insecure | No distress | 26.67a | 0.82 | 23.27 | 5.11 | 23.00b | 6.48 |
| Distress | 19.67a | 8.08 | 24.33c | 3.38 | 13.00bcd | — | |
| Secure | No distress | 24.63 | 3.07 | 23.79 | 4.50 | 24.60 | 2.84 |
| Distress | 24.45 | 3.11 | 23.42 | 4.57 | 24.20d | 2.28 | |
a
Statistically significant pairwise comparison (p< .05): emotionally distressed differ from non-emotionally distressed within insecure children with low cortisol levels.
b
Statistically significant pairwise comparison (p< .05): emotionally distressed differ from non-emotional distressed within insecure children with high cortisol levels.
c
Statistically significant pairwise comparison (p< .05):normative differ from high cortisol levels within insecure, emotionally distressed children.
d
Statistically significant pairwise comparison (p< .01): insecure differ from secure within emotionally distressed children with high cortisol levels.