Intergenerational Coresidence With Children and Grandchildren and Maternal Sleep Duration at Midlife.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Mothers with young children tend to have shorter sleep durations than childfree women, but previous research has not considered heterogeneity in sleep duration among midlife mothers who have varying coresidential patterns with their adult, minor, and grandchildren. We examine the distribution of sleep duration across mothers' different intergenerational coresidential contexts (living without any children, living with any minor children, living with only adult children, and living with any grandchildren) and test how these patterns differ across racial/ethnic groups.

Methods

Regression analyses estimate sleep duration among a sample of midlife mothers with minor and adult children and grandchildren from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) data (

SUBMITTER: Cao R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12105468 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature