3-119 - The Association of Sleep with Social-Contextual Risks and Developmental Outcomes in Early Childhood

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Sleep is fundamental to children’s growth and development, yet contextual factors related to sleep are understudied. Sleep difficulties are common during early childhood. Thus, it is important to identify risk factors for poor sleep and in turn, understand how poor sleep predicts key developmental outcomes. This symposium should advance interdisciplinary and prevention research efforts by examining sleep in relation to social-contextual risks and developmental outcomes from infancy through early elementary school-age using multiple methods, studying different populations, and applying diverse theoretical perspectives.

The first paper examines social-contextual risks in relation to parent-reported sleep among low-income preschoolers. Findings suggest that risks are differentially associated with sleep health outcomes (e.g., duration, timing, quality). The second paper utilizes a cumulative risk perspective to predict kindergarten and first grade students’ sleep quality, finding associations between cumulative risk and poorer sleep as measured using actigraphy. The third paper considers objectively-measured sleep as a moderator of the association between effortful control and academic achievement in kindergarteners and first graders, finding that effortful control may be particularly important for children with poor sleep. Taking a goodness-of-fit perspective, the final paper assesses how mothers’ prenatal sleep and infant sleep interact to predict maternal post-partum depression and subsequent infant attachment. Greater infant sleep variability predicted more depressive symptoms, and subsequent declines in infant attachment, when mothers slept more prior to childbirth. Together, these papers provide an overview of how social-contextual risk, child characteristics and parent-child relationships interact to shape sleep health and suggest new avenues for research and intervention.

Sub Unit

• Health, Growth, Injury

Chairs

• Rebecca H Berger, Arizona State University

• Alison Leslie Miller, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Individual Presentations

• Social Contextual Risk and Sleep Health in Low Income Preschool Children - Presenting Author: Alison Leslie Miller, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Julie Lumeng, The University of Michigan, Department of Pediatrics; Monique K. LeBourgeois, Univ of Colorado - Boulder

• Cumulative Risk Predicts Poor Sleep Quality in Early Elementary School Children - Presenting Author: Rebecca H Berger, Arizona State University; Anjolii Diaz, Arizona State University; Carlos Valiente, Arizona State University; Tracy L Spinrad, Arizona State Univ; Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University; Jody Southworth, Arizona State University, T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics

• Effortful Control and Academic Achievement: The Moderating Role of Children’s Sleep - Presenting Author: Anjolii Diaz, Arizona State University; Rebecca H Berger, Arizona State University; Kassondra M Silva, Arizona State University; Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University; Carlos Valiente, Arizona State University; Tracy L Spinrad, Arizona State Univ; Jody Southworth, Arizona State University, T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics

• Goodness of Fit Between Maternal and Infant Sleep Predicts Maternal Postpartum Depressive Symptoms - Presenting Author: Ronald Seifer, Brown University; Stephanie H Parade, Brown University