Early parental positive personality and stress: Longitudinal associations with children's sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The current study examined the influence of early parental stress and positive parent personality during infancy on sleep in middle childhood. Further, the role of positive parent personality as a buffer of the association between parental stress and sleep was considered.

Methods

Participants included 381 twins and their primary caregivers who were recruited from birth records in the United States. Primary caregivers completed survey assessments via phone when twins were 12 and 30 months of age to assess multiple dimensions of parental stress and positive parent personality. Approximately 6 years later (M = 5.78, SD = 0.42), twins participated in an intensive assessment that included wearing actigraph watches to provide an objective measurement of sleep, while pri

SUBMITTER: Miadich SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677591 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature