APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Preschool Sleep Problems: Longitudinal Associations with Parenting Style & Parental Psychopathology
- Alyssa Rodriguez
University of Louisville - Akira Isaac
University of Louisville - Lea Dougherty
University of Maryland, College Park - Daniel Klein
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York - Sara Bufferd
University of Louisville
Abstract
Negative parenting behavior and parental psychopathology may contribute to young children’s sleep problems. In a longitudinal study with a large community sample of preschool-aged children, parents’ mood and anxiety disorders and less authoritative parenting when children were three contributed to children’s sleep problems at age six.
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