Table 2.
Assessing Rearing Differences in Infant Behavioral Withdrawal and ACTH Concentrations During the Separation Paradigm
| Mean | SEM | |||||
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| Adopted | Biological | Adopted | Biological | p | ||
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| Behavioral withdrawal | ||||||
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| Week 1 | 102.16 | 76.77 | 6.80 | 3.68 | .001 | |
| Week 2 | 83.86 | 65.01 | 5.73 | 3.10 | .004 | |
| Week 3 | 76.92 | 66.70 | 5.43 | 2.94 | .10 | |
| Week 4 | 79.97 | 69.64 | 5.72 | 3.10 | .12 | |
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| ACTH (Week) | ||||||
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| Week 1 | 493.93 | 388.15 | 41.35 | 21.25 | .02 | |
| Week 2 | 380.89 | 253.58 | 33.90 | 17.43 | .001 | |
| Week 3 | 310.29 | 223.22 | 27.62 | 14.20 | .006 | |
| Week 4 | 259.59 | 232.10 | 28.41 | 14.60 | .39 | |
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| ACTH (Hour) | ||||||
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| Hour 1 | 414.08 | 305.67 | 32.60 | 16.75 | .004 | |
| Hour 2 | 308.70 | 242.83 | 26.70 | 13.72 | .03 | |
Note. Boldface type indicates a significant difference (p < .05).