First-formers feel stress 3-6 months prior to school
Economic and Social Research Council has published the report which proves that first-formers start to feel stress for 3-6 months before school.
This conclusion has appeared as a result of numerous analyses. Analyses allowed to determine the level of “hormone of stress” (cortisol) in blood. Analyses were taken half-year before visiting the first school lesson, in two weeks and in six months after the beginning. It has appeared that level of cortisol was inexplicable higher 6 months prior to going to school.
Authors of the research consider that there are several explanations. On the one hand, school is rather mysterious thing for the child. On the other, parents experience anxiety about the future study of their offsprings and transfer stress to children, writes Washington ProFile.
At the majority of surveyed children the level of cortisol in blood has essentially reduced in half-year of training. Exception was the reserved, unsociable pupils.