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Longitudinal associations between marital instability and child sleep problems across infancy and toddlerhood in adoptive families
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posted on 2023-06-08, 21:46 authored by Anne M Mannering, Gordon Harold, Leslie D Leve, Katherine H Shelton, Daniel S Shaw, Rand D Conger, Jenae M Neiderhiser, Laura V Scaramella, David ReissThis study examined the longitudinal association between marital instability and child sleep problems at ages 9 and 18months 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. © 2011 The Authors. Child Development © 2011 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
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Child DevelopmentISSN
0009-3920Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellExternal DOI
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4Volume
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1252-1266Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2015-08-11Usage metrics
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