Longitudinal associations between marital instability and child sleep problems across infancy and toddlerhood in adoptive families

Mannering, Anne M., Harold, Gordon Thomas, Leve, Leslie D., Shelton, Katherine Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-5291, Shaw, Daniel S., Conger, Rand D., Neiderhiser, Jenae M., Scaramella, Laura V. and Reiss, David 2011. Longitudinal associations between marital instability and child sleep problems across infancy and toddlerhood in adoptive families. Child Development 82 (4) , pp. 1252-1266. 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01594.x

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Abstract

This study examined the longitudinal association between marital instability and child sleep problems at ages 9 and 18 months in 357 families with a genetically unrelated infant adopted at birth. This design eliminates shared genes as an explanation for similarities between parent and child. Structural equation modeling indicated that T1 marital instability predicted T2 child sleep problems, but T1 child sleep problems did not predict T2 marital instability. This result was replicated when models were estimated separately for mothers and fathers. Thus, even after controlling for stability in sleep problems and marital instability and eliminating shared genetic influences on associations using a longitudinal adoption design, marital instability prospectively predicts early childhood sleep patterns.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law Psychology Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0009-3920
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 12:55
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/11610

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