Disentangling the Direction of Associations between Sleep and Temperament in Toddlers

Bastien, Laurianne; Tétreault, Émilie; Bernier, Annie

doi:10.1080/15402002.2019.1629442

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“…A longitudinal study that explored toddlers’ sleep and temperament also reported that shorter night-time sleep duration at 2 years predicted more temperamental proneness to anger at 3 years. 35 Another study identified a relationship between difficult temperament and short sleep duration. 36…”

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“…A longitudinal study that explored toddlers' sleep and temperament also reported that shorter night-time sleep duration at 2 years predicted more temperamental proneness to anger at 3 years. 35 Another study identified a relationship between difficult temperament and short sleep duration. 36 Regarding the issue of "staying up late" among children, although the findings did not show any relationship with temperament dimensions, a previous study that used the same temperament measurement reported that higher temperamental negative affect was positively correlated with later sleep onset time.…”

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Association Between Sleep and Temperament of Preschool Children in Malaysia

Fujii

Hayashi

Teng

2022

Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental H

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Background: Unhealthy sleep patterns have been linked to a variety of adverse effects in children, and temperament could be an influencing factor in poor sleep quality. Aim: This study examined the association between temperament and sleep quality among preschoolers. Methods: The participants of the study were 35 children aged 3 years to 6 years in Northern Peninsular Malaysia. Observational sleep was recorded across 14 days. Further, a self-administered questionnaire was used to capture the children’s sleep-related issues. The Children’s Behavior Questionnaire-Very-Short-Form was used to measure the temperament of the children. The relationship between sleep patterns and sleep-related issues and temperament was assessed. Results: No significant differences were found between the 3 subscales of temperament sleep duration, and sleep and wake times, for both night sleep and naps. Concerning the association between temperament and children’s sleep issues, a negative weak correlation was found between negative affect and children’s difficulty falling asleep, as well as frequent night-time waking. Effortful control was found to have a weak positive correlation with “sufficient sleep” and “earliness of the sleep,” with a negative correlation for the topic “a child’s bad mood and crying through the day.” Conclusions: The results of this study did not show positive correlations between temperament and quality of sleep among preschool children in Malaysia, though some children’s sleep issue was correlated with temperament. Similar to other studies, these results might be an indication that a child’s difficult temperament could be a factor affecting sleep quality though further large-scale studies will be needed.

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Association Between Sleep and Temperament of Preschool Children in Malaysia

Fujii

Hayashi

Teng

2022

Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental H

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“…Namely to that way, that conjectures will be replaced by an evidence of treatment of sleep problems not only increase sleep quality, but also may prevent psychopathological consequences of problem sleep in children high at risk for dysregulated behavior. In sum, an association between development of emotional problems due to early sleep problems can be assumed, whereas the reverse association is still to debate and evidence is rare [33,73,74].…”

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Effects of an online treatment for pediatric sleep problems on emotion dysregulation in young children

2021

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Background: Pediatric sleep problems are strongly linked to future emotional problems. However, research regarding the effect of internet-based cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia (iCBT-I) in early childhood on the outcome of emotion dysregulation is missing. Participants: 200 children (47% female) aged 7 to 63 months (M = 23.13) suffering from behavioral insomnia participated in the Mini-KiSS 6-week online treatment. Methods: A prepost- follow-up design was implemented. Sleep disorders were stated according to ICSD-3 and DSM-5 criteria and emotional dysregulation was assessed with an emotion dysregulation profile for children. Difference scores were calculated, a repeated-measures ANOVA, and stepwise multiple linear regression was performed. Results: After iCBT-I Mini-KiSS for young children, emotion dysregulation significantly declined immediately after the intervention (p = 0.000) and in the follow-up measurement after three months (p = 0.002). Age was associated with the change in emotion dysregulation at follow-up measurement (p = 0.017). Gender or the type of sleep disturbance did not have statistically significant impact on change in emotion dysregulation at any measurement (p ≥ 0.05). Clinically significant improvement of emotional dysregulation was achieved in 14.5% of the children from pre- to post-measurement, and 25.3% improved at follow-up. Conclusions: The findings show that treatment of pediatric insomnia reduce emotion dysregulation of infants and toddlers. Therefore, early sleep intervention might prevent mental disorder in young children. In future, an extended longitudinal design is needed to examine the preventing power of early-improved sleep on later psychopathological disorders. Beyond, future studies should examine underlying mechanisms in more detail.

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“…Child sleep may be especially affected by anger proneness because anger is associated with poor self-regulation and with an exacerbated reaction to frustration that is likely to occur around bedtime (Eisenberg et al, 2009;Leibenluft, 2017). Consistent with this, studies suggest that anger proneness and similar constructs such as irritability relate to age-specific sleep difficulties (Bastien et al, 2020;Halpern et al, 1994;Sorondo & Reeb-Sutherland, 2015). Therefore, this study examined the links between proneness to anger and age-related developments in sleep.…”

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Mother–child interactions and child anger proneness as antecedents of changes in sleep during the preschool period.

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Tétreault²,

Matte‐Gagné³

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Developmental Psychology

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Age-related developments in sleep during the preschool years are normative and consequential. Yet, very few studies have examined the antecedents of individual differences in such developments, and most have used parental reports of child sleep. This study aimed to investigate the roles of mutual responsiveness in mother–child interactions and child temperamental anger proneness in the prediction of changes in sleep during the preschool period. The sample was comprised of 94 children (44 girls, 50 boys) of mostly White (93%) and college-educated (85%) mothers. Mother–child mutual responsiveness and child anger proneness were assessed at 2 years, and sleep was assessed using actigraphy at the ages of 2, 3, and 4 years. Multilevel growth models revealed that higher temperamental anger proneness was concurrently associated with lower sleep efficiency and shorter nighttime sleep duration at 2 years. In regard to changes in sleep, nighttime sleep duration decreased between 2 and 4 years among children exposed to lower mutual responsiveness in interactions with their mothers. High anger proneness was related to an increase in sleep efficiency from 2 to 4 years, whereas low anger proneness was associated with a decrease in nighttime duration during the same period. No interactive effect was found between anger proneness and mother–child mutual responsiveness. These results suggest that mother–child relationships and child temperament may play different roles, not only in children’s concurrent sleep patterns but also in changes in sleep across the preschool period.

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Disentangling the Direction of Associations between Sleep and Temperament in Toddlers

Abstract: , A. (in press). Disentangling the direction of associations between sleep and temperament in toddlers. Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Cited by 8 publications

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Association Between Sleep and Temperament of Preschool Children in Malaysia

Association Between Sleep and Temperament of Preschool Children in Malaysia

Effects of an online treatment for pediatric sleep problems on emotion dysregulation in young children

Mother–child interactions and child anger proneness as antecedents of changes in sleep during the preschool period.

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