Sleepless nights : the development and maintenance of night waking in infants /
The purpose of the study was to analyze the support for a portion of the Tri-Component Model of Sleep Development. Sixty-one women in their last trimester of pregnancy completed measures assessing maternal attachment characteristics, maternal psychopathology, knowledge about infant sleep, and demogr...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1998.
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| Summary: | The purpose of the study was to analyze the support for a portion of the Tri-Component Model of Sleep Development. Sixty-one women in their last trimester of pregnancy completed measures assessing maternal attachment characteristics, maternal psychopathology, knowledge about infant sleep, and demographic information. Subjects were contacted again 5 1/2 months after their infant's birth and asked to provide information about their pregnancy, labor and delivery, and child's medical history. They also completed measures of infant temperament, knowledge about infant sleep impact of life events, and selected parenting behaviors. Subjects also completed a I -week sleep diary, monitoring their infants sleep schedule during the night, and a rating of the problematic nature of their infant's sleep. Analyses supported the proposed path in which knowledge about infant sleep prior to the infant's birth had an indirect effect on infant sleep disruption through its relation with problematic parental bedtime behaviors, such as cosleeping and nighttime feedings. Significant indirect effects of infant fussy temperament and maternal anxious/ambivalent attachment on parental bedtime behaviors were not found. An additional model positing relations between infant gender and unadaptability with sleep disruption and an indirect effect of knowledge of infant sleep on sleep disruption through its relation with parental bedtime behaviors was supported in exploratory analyses. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Psychology". |
| Physical Description: | ix, 73 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 46-50. |