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Published on: September 19, 2019
Parental relationship dissolution and child development: the role of child sleep quality
Brittany N Rudd1,2, Amy Holtzworth-Munroe2, Brian M D'Onofrio2
1Department of Psychiatry, Penn Center for Mental Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Abstract:
We utilized the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing longitudinal dataset to evaluate associations among a maternal relationship dissolution, childhood sleep, and child development, specifically externalizing and internalizing symptoms, attention and social difficulties, as well as cognitive ability, when children were ages 5 (n = 3590) and 9 (n = 3062). A maternal relationship dissolution was related to poorer child sleep quality at ages 5 and 9. There was evidence of an indirect relation from a maternal relationship dissolution to child development through poor sleep quality when the child was 5 and 9 years old. The implications of this work are discussed.
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