McMillan and colleagues (2009 ) studied cortisol responses to standard psychological stressor in a group of female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment, relative to a control group

The attenuated response from maltreated youth, as compared to a typical increase of cortisol in the control group, was interpreted as:

a) A symptom of dysregulation that may play a role in their vulnerability
b) A symptom of adaptation that may play a role in their vulnerability
c) A misunderstanding of the direction of the correlation between the variables
d) None of the above


a

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