Protective and risk factors of toddlers' sleep and parental stress

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Published: Jun 29, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2020.n1.v2.1870
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sleep toddlers parental psychosocial functioning

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Simona de Stasio
LUMSA
Benedetta Ragni
LUMSA
Francesca Boldrini
LUMSA

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The current study examined the network of relationships among toddlers’ quality of sleep and emotion regulation, parental bedtime practices and involvement, parental self-perceived social support and stress, integrating a novel combination of psychosocial dimensions into a predictive model of quality of sleep and parental stress in a sample of 80 families with 2–3-year-old children. The results indicated that infants’ emotion regulation, as well as proximal context variables, considering both maternal and paternal psychosocial functioning predicted variance in parental levels of stress. Furthermore, the findings showed that the number of child’s night awakenings reported by mothersand thetimerequested bytoddlersto fallasleep, were significantly related to parental distress levels as referred by both parents.

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de Stasio, S., Ragni, B., & Boldrini, F. (2020). Protective and risk factors of toddlers’ sleep and parental stress. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 505–514. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2020.n1.v2.1870
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH AND DEALING WITH MATURITY
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Simona de Stasio, LUMSA

LUMSA

Benedetta Ragni, LUMSA

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Francesca Boldrini, LUMSA

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