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Children’S Bedtime Difficulties And Parental Psychopathology Predict Children’S Sleep Problems Over Time, Dakshinkumaar Devanand, Alyssa Rodriguez, Sara Bufferd
Children’S Bedtime Difficulties And Parental Psychopathology Predict Children’S Sleep Problems Over Time, Dakshinkumaar Devanand, Alyssa Rodriguez, Sara Bufferd
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Parents play a critical role in preschool-aged children’s (aged 3-5) sleep health (Bell & Belsky, 2008) via facilitation of bedtime routines and other behaviors that influence children’s sleep problems (Coto et al., 2018). In addition, parental anxiety and depression may be related to children’s sleep problems (Roberts et al., 2020). Exploring longitudinal associations, as well as including both parent and coparent report, can help identify early indicators of children’s sleep problems over time. It was hypothesized that children’s bedtime difficulties and parents’ and coparents’ anxiety/depressive symptoms when children were ages 3-5 (Time 1) would predict children’s sleep problems when children …