Sex differences in the association between internalizing symptoms and hair cortisol level among 10-12 year-old adolescents in China

• Qingyun Lu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qingyun Lu, Fada Pan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ Co-first authors.

  Affiliations Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

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• Fada Pan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qingyun Lu, Fada Pan

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  ¶‡ Co-first authors.

  Affiliation Colleage of education science, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

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• Lingling Ren,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Jing Xiao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

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• Fangbiao Tao

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: taofangbiao@126.com

  Affiliation Department of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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