Parental Depressive Symptoms and Children's Sleep: The Role of Family Conflict

Autor/inn/en	El-Sheikh, Mona; Kelly, Ryan J.; Bagley, Erika J.; Wetter, Emily K.
Titel	Parental Depressive Symptoms and Children's Sleep: The Role of Family Conflict
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53 (2012) 7, S.806-814 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02530.x
Schlagwörter	Conflict; Sleep; Environmental Influences; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Children; Measurement Equipment; Correlation; Feedback (Response); Mothers; Fathers; Measures (Individuals); Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Konflikt; Schlaf; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Messinstrument; Korrelation; Mother; Mutter; Messdaten
Abstract	Background: We used a multi-method and multi-informant design to identify developmental pathways through which parental depressive symptoms contribute to children's sleep problems. Environmental factors including adult inter-partner conflict and parent-child conflict were considered as process variables of this relation. Methods: An ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of children (n = 268) participated (M age = 9.44 years, SD = 8.61 months). Children wore actigraphs for 7 consecutive nights and also reported on their sleep problems. Results: Higher levels of maternal depressive symptoms were associated with children's sleep/wake problems. Higher levels of paternal depressive symptoms were associated with shorter time in bed and fewer sleep minutes. Inter-partner conflict and parent-child conflict were mechanisms of effects in the associations between maternal depressive symptoms and children's actigraphy-based and self-reported sleep problems. Conclusions: Findings build on this scant literature and highlight the importance of identifying pathways of risk and familial and environmental influences on children's sleep problems. (As Provided).
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