Education Is Associated with the Magnitude of Cortisol Responses to Psychosocial Stress in College Students.

摘要: Purpose Researchers benefit from controlling for individual differences that systematically account variance in acute cortisol responses (e.g., sex). Similarly, some suggest education could be used as a covariate because prior work found negative relationship between and the magnitude of middle-aged adults. Nevertheless, is seldom controlled tests to stress, part effect on has yet tested college sample. The present study therefore stress students.