Children ’s cortisol response to the transition from preschool to formal schooling: A review

The first year of formal schooling is an important developmental transition experience, for both children and their families: The school environment is structured around explicit goals of instruction, typically, literacy, numeracy, and socialization, and is increasingly focused on children ’s academic progress, in contrast to most childcare or home environments (Hughes, 2015; Rimm-Kaufman and Pianta, 2000). Several researchers consider school entry to be a “universal social stressor” or a “normative stressor”, because children enter a novel peer-group setting and face these new social and cognitive demands (Groeneveld et al., 2013; Rimm-Kaufman and Pianta, 2000; Russ et al., 2012).

Source: Psychoneuroendocrinology - September 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sophie Parent, Sonia Lupien, Catherine M. Herba, V éronique Dupéré, Megan R. Gunnar, Jean R. Séguin Source Type: research