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Peggy S Keller1, Mona El-Sheikh, Brian Vaughn, Douglas A Granger.
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This study examines relations between children's salivary interleukin-6 (IL-6) and secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) and mental health. Child sex was considered as a moderator of relations. Data were from 329 normally developing children (M age=9.85years; SD=.98years); 67% of children were European American and 33% were African American. Saliva samples were obtained during the afternoon and assayed for SIgA and IL-6. Parents completed questionnaire measures of child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and children completed self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Structural equation models were fit to the data, and indicated that greater levels of salivary IL-6 and SIgA were associated with adjustment problems more strongly for girls than for boys.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20732336 PMCID: PMC2975755 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.08.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Physiol Behav ISSN: 0031-9384