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- Title
Within-Family Relations in Objective Sleep Duration, Quality, and Schedule.
- Authors
Kouros, Chrystyna D.; El‐Sheikh, Mona; El-Sheikh, Mona
- Abstract
The current study examined within-family relations between mothers', fathers', and children's objectively assessed sleep. Participants were 163 children (Mage = 10.45 years; SD = 0.62) and their parents. For 7 nights, families wore actigraphs to assess sleep duration (minutes), quality (efficiency, long wake episode, total wake minutes), and schedule (wake time). A sleep log assessed bedtime. Multilevel models indicated that children's sleep minutes, sleep efficiency, wake minutes, and wake time were associated with fluctuations in their mothers', but not fathers', sleep that same night. The duration and quality of mothers' sleep was associated with both fathers' and children's sleep that night, whereas fathers' sleep was positively associated with only mothers' sleep. Findings highlight the importance of examining sleep within a family context.
- Subjects
SLEEP hygiene; FATHER-child relationship; MOTHER-child relationship; FAMILY health; FAMILY relations; ACTIGRAPHY; FATHERS; MOTHERS; RESEARCH funding; SLEEP; SLEEP stages; TIME; WAKEFULNESS
- Publication
Child Development, 2017, Vol 88, Issue 6, p1983
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12667