APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
Sleep Problems Partially Mediate Relations between Family Socioeconomic Status and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
- Megan Schumer
University of Iowa - Zachary Demko
The University of Iowa - Madeline Metz
University of Iowa - Isaac Petersen
University of Iowa
Abstract
A cross-lagged panel model examined sleep problems as a mediator in associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and children’s reading skills, math skills, internalizing symptoms, and externalizing symptoms. Sleep problems mediated relations between SES and later internalizing and externalizing symptoms even controlling for child age, sex, grade, and prior symptom levels.
