Table 5.
Daily Interactions with Adult Children and Parents’ Diurnal Cortisol Rhythms
| Children who have P.E. problems | Children who have L.B. problems | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 1 | Step 2 | |||||
| INT | INT | CAR | DEC | INT | INT | CAR | DEC | |
| Any contact | ||||||||
| Same day interaction | 0.11* | 0.09 | 0.14 | −0.00 | −0.02 | 0.02 | −0.13 | −0.00 |
| Previous day interaction | 0.04 | 0.11 | −0.22 | −0.01 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.01 | −0.00 |
| Positive interactions | ||||||||
| Same day interaction | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.17 | −0.00 | −0.03 | 0.00 | −0.09 | −0.00 |
| Previous day interaction | 0.00 | 0.04 | −0.21 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | −0.02 | −0.00 |
| Negative interactions | ||||||||
| Same day interaction | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.19 | −0.03** | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 | −0.01 |
| Previous day interaction | 0.07 | 0.12 | −0.15 | −0.01 | 0.18** | 0.19* | 0.09 | −0.01 |
Notes. P.E. = physical-emotional; L.B. = lifestyle-behavioral; INT = intercept; CAR = cortisol awakening response; DEC = daily decline. Models include the quadratic decline and controlled for gender, neuroticism, number of children, education, weekend day, wake time, medication use, race, anxiety, depressive symptoms, sleep quality the night before, and smoking.
*
p ≤ .05.
**
p ≤ .01.