TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - What do preschool-aged children do when they wake at night: toward an understanding of night-waking behaviors among community children
JO  - Behavioral sleep medicine
A1  - Coulombe, J. Aimée
A1  - Reid, Graham J.
SP  - 89
EP  - 105
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - Little is known about behaviors displayed by preschoolers during night-waking. Mothers (N = 203) of community preschoolers completed the Children's Night-waking Behavior Scale and measures of night-waking, co-sleeping, and daytime behavior. Approximately 1/2 of wakings involved calling out, getting out of bed, and requests for comfort; 1/4 involved activity, fear, or instrumental requests. Specific associations between night-waking behaviors, night-waking, and bedtime and daytime behaviors were observed; associations were not consistent across child gender and age. For example, comfort requests were associated with mothers' perceptions of sleep as problematic in 4- and 5-year-old children only (ρ = .42); activity requests were associated with hyperactivity for boys only (r = .36). Understanding night-waking requires consideration of factors beyond parenting, such as children's behavior, age, and gender.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1540-2002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2013.764527
ID  - ref1
ER  -