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Toddlers' Sleep and Temperament: Reporting Bias or a Valid Link? a Research Note
Author(s) -
Scher Anat,
Epstein Rachel,
Sadeh Avi,
Tirosh Emanuel,
Lavie Peretz
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00943.x
Subject(s) - psychology , temperament , developmental psychology , sleep (system call) , clinical psychology , link (geometry) , personality , social psychology , computer network , computer science , operating system
Objective steep measures derived from a computerized movement detector attached (o the child's leg, were obtained for a group of 31 toddlers (mean age: 18.5 months). The monitored sleep parameters were compared with maternal assessment of the child's sleep and her perception of his temperament. The validity of maternal diaries as a measure of the child's sleep was not supported. Nevertheless, a link between both subjective and objective sleep measures with temperament dimensions was indicated. The modest association between sleep and temperament may suggest either a continuity between some aspects of day‐ and night‐time functioning or, alternatively, the influence of the child's Sleep behavior in shaping the mother's perceptions of her toddlers temperament.