Child Sleep and Socioeconomic Context in the Development of Cognitive Abilities in Early Childhood

Hoyniak, Caroline P.; Bates, John E.; Staples, Angela D.; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Molfese, Dennis L.; Molfese, Victoria J.

doi:10.1111/cdev.13042

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“…To increase reliability of our infant sleep measures, we created two composite scores using the actigraphy and videosomnography variables described above. This analytic strategy is consistent with recent approaches in the literature (e.g., Hoyniak et al, ) as well as with sleep theory (Goodlin‐Jones et al, ), which makes a distinction between the processes of sleep consolidation and regulation. Sleep consolidation refers to the process by which sleep becomes increasingly diurnal, with the majority of sleep time occurring during one continuous nighttime episode.…”

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Longitudinal links between maternal factors and infant cognition: Moderation by infant sleep

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Gueron‐Sela

Grimes

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Infancy

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The current study examined the moderating role of infant sleep in the link between maternal factors (i.e., maternal education, depressive symptoms, sleep disturbance) and infant cognition. Data come from 95 African American parent–child dyads. At 3 months of age, infant sleep was objectively measured using videosomnography and actigraphy, from which measures of sleep regulation and consolidation were calculated. Mothers also self‐reported their level of education, depressive symptoms, and sleep quality. At 6 months of age, infants completed cognitive assessments, including a measure of general cognitive ability and observed attention behavior. Findings revealed that infant sleep quality interacted with maternal education and sleep disturbances to predict cognition. Specifically, the link between maternal education and infants’ attention behavior was significant and positive for infants with better regulated sleep, but not for infants with poorly regulated sleep. Similarly, the link between maternal sleep disturbance and infant cognition depended on infant sleep quality. For infants with poorer sleep consolidation, increased maternal sleep disturbance predicted poorer infant general cognitive ability. For infants with better sleep consolidation, maternal sleep disturbance was positively related to both general cognitive ability and attention behavior. These findings suggest that infant sleep quality moderates the impact of environmental factors on cognitive functioning.

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Longitudinal links between maternal factors and infant cognition: Moderation by infant sleep

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Grimes

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Infancy

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“…Four sleep components were estimated from the many actigraph and sleep diary variables. Based on analyses with a separate sample (Hoyniak, Bates, Staples, Rudasill, Molfese & Molfese, 2018), a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) with oblique rotation (to allow for covariation between components) was used to extract four overarching sleep components: 1) Variability, 2) Timing, 3) Duration, and 4) Activity, that together explained 82% of the variance in indicators. These four components represent broad dimensions of actigraphy that are often examined in sleep research using single variables, without taking advantage of the benefits to reliability and validity of multi-variable aggregated composite scores (Meltzer, Montgomery-Downs, Insana, & Walsh, 2012).…”

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“…These four components represent broad dimensions of actigraphy that are often examined in sleep research using single variables, without taking advantage of the benefits to reliability and validity of multi-variable aggregated composite scores (Meltzer, Montgomery-Downs, Insana, & Walsh, 2012). The sleep components have shown strong predictive validity in analyses regarding toddlers' cognitive development (Hoyniak et al, 2018) and mothers' stress and parenting (McQuillan, Bates, Staples, & Deater-Deckard, in press).…”

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Maternal Executive Function and Sleep Interact in the Prediction of Negative Parenting

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McQuillan

Bates

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Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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Objective/Background: Poorer executive function (EF) has been implicated in the etiology of negative parenting (e.g., harsh, reactive, intrusive). EF may be affected by good or poor quality sleep, and thus sleep may be involved in negative parenting. In the current exploratory study, we investigated the additive and interactive effects of maternal EF and sleep indicators in the statistical prediction of negative parenting. Patients/Methods: A sample of 241 mothers of 2.5 yr-olds (51% girls) completed questionnaires, wore wrist actigraphs for one week, and completed several EF tasks during a laboratory visit. Results/Conclusions: We found that sleep activity (e.g., nighttime waking and movements) interacted with EF in predicting negative parenting practices, such that poorer EF was linked with more negative parenting only in the context of higher levels of night waking. Sleep duration also interacted with EF, such that EF and parenting were no longer associated when sleep durations were short. The findings have implications for incorporating sleep into our understanding of maternal cognitive self-regulation and harsh parenting during early childhood development.

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“…Jung, Molfese, Beswick, Jacobi‐Vessels, and Molnar (2009) found that longer parent‐reported sleep durations were associated with improved cognitive abilities at age 3, but were not significantly associated with changes in cognitive abilities from ages 3 to 8. Our previous work found that later timing of sleep, measured using actigraphs, was associated with poorer cognitive abilities in toddlerhood; however, within‐subject changes in sleep timing were not associated with within‐subject changes in cognitive abilities (Hoyniak et al, 2018).…”

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Sleep across early childhood: implications for internalizing and externalizing problems, socioemotional skills, and cognitive and academic abilities in preschool

Hoyniak

Bates

McQuillan

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Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background: Sleep is thought to be important for behavioral and cognitive development. However, much of the prior research on sleep's role in behavioral/cognitive development has relied upon self-report measures and crosssectional designs. Methods: The current study examined how early childhood sleep, measured actigraphically, was developmentally associated with child functioning at 54 months. Emphasis was on functioning at preschool, a crucial setting for the emergence of psychopathology. Participants included 119 children assessed longitudinally at 30, 36, 42, and 54 months. We examined correlations between child sleep and adjustment across three domains: behavioral adjustment (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems), socioemotional skills, and academic/cognitive abilities. We further probed consistent associations with growth curve modeling. Results: Internalizing problems were associated with sleep variability, and cognitive and academic abilities were associated with sleep timing. Growth curve analysis suggested that children with more variable sleep at 30 months had higher teacher-reported internalizing problems in preschool and that children with later sleep timing at 30 months had poorer cognitive and academic skills at 54 months. However, changes in sleep from 30 to 54 months were not associated with any of the domains of adjustment. Conclusions: Findings indicate that objectively measured sleep variability and late sleep timing in toddlerhood are associated with higher levels of internalizing problems and poorer academic/cognitive abilities in preschool.

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Child Sleep and Socioeconomic Context in the Development of Cognitive Abilities in Early Childhood

Cited by 37 publications

References 78 publications

Longitudinal links between maternal factors and infant cognition: Moderation by infant sleep

Longitudinal links between maternal factors and infant cognition: Moderation by infant sleep

Maternal Executive Function and Sleep Interact in the Prediction of Negative Parenting

Sleep across early childhood: implications for internalizing and externalizing problems, socioemotional skills, and cognitive and academic abilities in preschool

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