Children's Sleep Regulation Is Linked to Mothers' Sleep-Related Childhood Experiences

Autor/inn/en	Aviezer, Ora; Scher, Anat
Titel	Children's Sleep Regulation Is Linked to Mothers' Sleep-Related Childhood Experiences
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28 (2013) 2, S.271-281 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.07.004
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Sleep; Foreign Countries; Separation Anxiety; Personality; Research Design; Infants; Preschool Children; Mothers; Child Rearing; Parent Background; Mother Attitudes; Collective Settlements; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Schlaf; Ausland; Trennungsangst; Personalität; Forschungsdesign; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Elternhaus; Mutterliebe; Schlichtungsverfahren
Abstract	The present research explored how mothers' own childhood experiences are linked to their perceptions of their children's sleep regulation. It focused on collective sleeping; a practice used in the past in the Israeli kibbutz, and used a quasi-experimental research design to examine whether mothers who were raised in collective sleeping arrangements differed from mothers who were raised in home sleeping. Two typically developing cohorts: infants (n = 68; ages 9-15 months; M = 12.2, SD = 2.2) and preschool children (n = 113; ages 48-55 months; M = 51.5, SD = 1.85) participated in this investigation. Sleep regulation and temperament were reported for infants and children, whereas for mothers data were collected on separation anxiety and appraisal of the ecology in which they were raised. Collectively raised mothers evaluated their upbringing significantly more negatively than home-raised mothers, expressed higher separation anxiety with regard to an alternative caregiver, but were not different in their views of their child's sleep difficulties. For infants, it was maternal separation anxiety that contributed uniquely to the explained variance in maternal view of sleep regulation difficulties. For preschool children, it was maternal evaluation of own childhood ecology and child's temperament that contributed uniquely to the explained variance in maternal view of sleep regulation difficulties. These findings suggest that mothers' representations of their sleep-related early experiences, rather than their childhood ecology in and of itself, influenced their perceptions about their child's sleep, which, in turn, affect child's sleep patterns. Implications to caregiving are discussed. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10