Table 3 Pearson correlations between cortisol awakening response, stress response to and recovery from the Trier Social Stress Test.

	Cortisol awakening response				Cortisol stress response^a				Cortisol stress recovery^b
	Indigenous		Non-Indigenous		Indigenous		Non-Indigenous		Indigenous		Non-Indigenous
	R	p	R	p	R	p	R	p	R	p	R	p
Chronic stress (PSS)	−0.288	0.42	0.728	0.011	0.118	0.729	−0.576	0.064	0	0.999	−0.491	0.125
Chronic stress (K6)	−0.641	0.046	0.652	0.03	−0.037	0.915	−0.116	0.735	−0.15	0.661	0.081	0.813
SES	0.073	0.84	−0.674	0.023	−0.158	0.642	0.275	0.413	0.506	0.112	0.275	0.414
Internalising	−0.064	0.861	0.623	0.041	−0.449	0.166	−0.104	0.76	−0.775	0.005	0.129	0.705
Depression	−0.17	0.639	0.433	0.184	−0.162	0.634	−0.273	0.417	−0.551	0.079	−0.035	0.917
Anxiety	0.001	0.997	0.479	0.136	−0.297	0.376	−0.202	0.551	−0.583	0.06	−0.108	0.753
Negative Life Events	−0.001	0.998	0.233	0.491	−0.186	0.583	−0.252	0.455	−0.312	0.35	−0.289	0.389
SEWB	0.136	0.707			−0.112	0.757			−0.274	0.444
Depression	0.022	0.952			−0.182	0.614			−0.521	0.122
Anxiety	0.068	0.851			−0.103	0.778			0.029	0.936
Suicide risk	0.147	0.686			−0.061	0.866			0.169	0.64
Resilience	0.192	0.595			0.045	0.902			−0.223	0.536
Interpersonal racism	−0.325	0.359			0.033	0.924			0.419	0.199
Internalized racism	−0.433	0.212			−0.676	0.022			−0.107	0.755

^aDifference between baseline and peak-stress cortisol, ^bDifference between peak-stress and recovery (+60 min) cortisol, Correlations were not calculated for childhood adversity due to n = 5 in one group.

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