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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2012 Jun 1;37(12):1981–1989. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.014

Table 3.

Standardized beta coefficients for cortisol measures and developmentally relevant covariates.

Demographic Pubertal Methodological



Female Age Gonadarche Adrenarche Summer School Sampling Wake time Sleep
Aggregate measures
 AUCAG .12 .06 .05 .03 −.08 −.12 −.22* −.06 −.09
 AUCI .13* .16* .12 .12 −.08 .13* −.13 −.07 −.30*
 AUCTG .11 .07 .03 .09 −.08 −.09 −.28* −.18* −.30*
 Slopeawake .10 .12* .13 .18* .04 .04 .06 −.04 −.23*
 Slopemax .06 −.03 .06 .14* .16* −.15* .08 −.04 −.02
Single sample measures
 Awake .03 −.07 .12 .01 .04 .09 −.05 .06 −.16
 Morning .13 −.01 .01 .11 .02 −.02 −.09 .01 −.07
 Maximum .13* .05 .11 .15 −.01 −.09 −.11 −.01 −.07
 Random .20* −.02 .07 .02 .07 −.06 −.06 .02 −.03
 Lunch .15* .10 −.09 .02 .04 .05 −.10 .08 .03
 Dinner .09 .02 .04 .12 .08 −.16* −.10 .28* .13
 Bedtime .18* .08 −.13 −.09 .04 .01 −.05 .13 .17

Note: AUCAG, area under curve relative to ground for awakening response; AUCI, area under curve relative to increase; AUCTG, area under curve relative to ground for diurnal profile. Morning, randomly selected sample from three morning samples; Random, randomly selected sample from all samples collected.

*

p < .05.