Low parental tolerance for infant crying: an underlying factor in infant sleep problems?
| Autor: | Yakov Sivan, Susan D. Calkins, Michal Juda-Hanael, Avi Sadeh, Michal Kahn, Thomas F. Anders, Liat Tikotzky, Efrat Livne-Karp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Parents Sleep Wake Disorders endocrine system Time Factors Cognitive Neuroscience Video Recording Crying Infant sleep Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Intervention (counseling) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Infant crying Parenting 05 social sciences Infant General Medicine Sleep in non-human animals Distress Clinical validity Female medicine.symptom Sleep Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Sleep Research. 25:501-507 |
| ISSN: | 0962-1105 |
| Popis: | Parenting behaviours play a major role in the evolution of infant sleep. Sleep problems in infancy have been associated with excessive parental involvement at night-time, and with shorter delays in response to infant night wakings and signalling. Infant crying and sleep problems are linked, yet little is known about the impact of parental responses to crying on infant sleep patterns. This study examined the hypothesis that lower parental tolerance for crying is associated with infant sleep problems. We studied 144 married couples divided into three groups: parents of infants suffering from night-waking problems (i.e. the clinical group), parents of infants without sleep problems and childless couples. Crying tolerance was assessed using questionnaires, audio recordings of crying infants and using a novel paradigm, in which participants were shown a video of a crying infant and asked when they would intervene. Parents in the clinical group demonstrated shorter intervention delays in the crying infant clip (group effect: P |
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