Cosleeping and Early Childhood Sleep Problems: Effects of Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status
Autor: | George L. Askew, Betsy Lozoff, Abraham W. Wolf |
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Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Sleep Wake Disorders Urban Population Ethnic group Social Environment Bedtime White People Developmental psychology Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Family Early childhood Wakefulness Socioeconomic status Ohio Family Characteristics Infant Social environment social sciences Black or African American Psychiatry and Mental health Socioeconomic Factors El Niño Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health population characteristics Female Psychology Negroid |
Zdroj: | Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 17:9-15 |
ISSN: | 0196-206X |
Popis: | This study examined ethnic differences in the relationship between cosleeping and sleep problems in the United States, taking socioeconomic status (SES) into consideration. The sample consisted of 186 urban families with a healthy 6- to- 48-month-old child and was grouped as follows: white lower SES (n = 40), white higher SES (n = 54), black lower SES (n = 43), and black higher SES (n = 47). Regular cosleeping was associated with increased night waking and/or bedtime protests among lower SES white children and higher SES black children. Among families who coslept, white parents were more likely than black parents to consider their child's sleep behavior to be a problem, i.e., stressful, conflictual, or upsetting as well as regularly occurring. One explanation is that differing childrearing attitudes and expectations influenced how parents interpreted their children's sleep behavior. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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