Kvalitatiivne uurimustöö Emotsioonide regulatsioon ja stress
Detecting an association between repeated measures combining several time
points, for cortisol the most widely used formulas are the area under the curve (AUCg
and AUCi), where AUCg is ´area under curve with respect to ground` and AUCi is
`area under the curve with respect to increase´. The calculation of the AUC is used to
simplify the statistical analysis with increasing the power of the testing without
loosing any information enclosed in repeated measurements (Pruessner et al, 2003).
The aim of this study was to investigate any association between psychological
variables and the biological stress response. We measured salivary cortisol and IL-6
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as markers of the biological stress response. We wished to test the hypothesis that low
secreation of cortisol and IL-6, as biological indicators of stress reactivity are