. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Soc Dev. 2016 Jul 28;26(2):382–401. doi: 10.1111/sode.12203

Table 2.

Perceived Stress and Cortisol Rise to TSST-C by Experimental Condition

	Mean perceived stress response (SD)	Mean cortisol response in μg/dl (SD)
Total	2.93 (2.68)	.07 (.16)
Alone condition	3.33 (2.72)	.05 (.10)
Dog condition	1.80 (2.54)	.11 (.21)
Parent condition	3.76 (2.45)	.04 (.12)

Note: Cortisol response, reflecting the rise from baseline to +25 min after the onset of the stressor, are shown as raw values for ease of interpretation; however, cortisol analyses were conducted on log₁₀ transformed data as per standard conventions.