Table 1.

Outcomes and measures. Children’s direct and indirect (parent and child care educator assessment)

Measures	Tool	informants
Indirect assessment by parents or child care educator
Major life events, chronic day-today stressors, SES, neighborhood, lifestyle, pre-& perinatal conditions, birth weight, breastfeeding, early regulatory problems, general health, reported PA	General health questionnaire	parents
Parenting style	Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ)	parents
Parental stress	Parental Stress Scale (PSS)	parents
Children’s eating behavior	Children’s Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ)	parents and child care educators
Children’s mood and behavior problems	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)	parents
Children’s temperament	Emotionality Activity Sociability Temperament Survey (EAS)	parents
Children’s emotion regulation	Index combining EAS scales, observed emotion regulation behavior, salivary cortisol, HRV during adaptation task	parents and child
Family atmosphere	Parental Expressed Emotions by Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS)	parents
Social contacts (with peers)	Child care questionnaire	child care educators
Children’s direct assessment at home
Physical activity	Accelerometers	child
Physiological stress responses in the chronic setting	Salivary amylase & cortisol, clipped fingernails, HR and HRV	child
Children’s direct assessment at the child care center
Afternoon A:
Adiposity	BMI, sum of 4 skinfolds, waist circumference	child
Motor skills	Zurich Neuromotor assessment (ZNA3–5)	child
Afternoon B:
Cognitive functioning	Intelligence and Development Scales-Preschool (IDS-P) – 4 cognitive tests	child
Self regulation	Statue test (NEPSY)	child
Afternoon C:
Stress response/acute stress reactivity	Adaptation task with stress perception, behavioral responses, salivary amylase & cortisol, HR & HRV, Picture Stress Test	child