@article{ref1,
title="Children's night waking among toddlers: relationships with mothers' and fathers' parenting approaches and children's behavioural difficulties",
journal="Journal of Advanced Nursing",
year="2015",
author="Zaidman-Zait, Anat and Hall, Wendy A.",
volume="71",
number="7",
pages="1639-1649",
abstract="AIMS: To explore associations between children's sleep problems, and behavioural difficulties and parenting approaches. <br><br>BACKGROUND: Children commonly have problematic night waking; however, relationships between parenting cognitions and behaviours and children's sleep problems are rarely examined. <br><br>DESIGN: Longitudinal children's cohort study from 5-29 months post birth. <br><br>METHODS: Data were taken from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (1998-2007) at three phases: 5, 17 and 29 months of age. Thousand four hundred and eighty-seven families were included in our study based on: participation from phase 1 (5-months old), both parents' reports on parenting cognitions/behaviours and child behavioural difficulties at 29 months, and mothers' reports of children's sleep at 29 months. In 2013, we conducted repeated measures anovas and manovas including children's gender. <br><br>RESULTS: Extended night-time waking patterns (wakes of ≥20 minutes) were associated with mothers' and fathers' lower sense of parenting impact and higher overprotectiveness and mothers' lower self-efficacy and higher coerciveness for 29-month-old children. In the extended waking group, mothers consistently reported lower self-efficacy, higher overprotectiveness and lower parenting impact at 5, 17 and 29 months. For those children, fathers were only more overprotective at 5 and 29 months. Regarding 29-month-old children's behaviour, children in the extended night waking group had highest scores on externalizing and internalizing behaviours. Girls had higher scores on shyness/inhibition and boys had higher scores on aggression/hyperactivity. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Mothers' and fathers' parenting cognitions and behaviours are affected by 29-month-old children's night waking patterns and night waking patterns are associated with children's behavioural problems.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0309-2402",
doi="10.1111/jan.12636",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jan.12636"
}