Assisted conception, maternal personality and parenting: Associations with toddler sleep behaviour

作者：Johnson Nikki; McMahon Catherine^*; Gibson Frances

来源：Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2014, 50(9): 732-738.

DOI：10.1111/jpc.12654

• assisted reproductive technology
• cognitions
• early childhood
• hardiness
• parenting
• sleep

Aim: To explore the role of maternal personality (hardiness), sleep-related cognitions and bedtime involvement in child sleep behaviour during the second post-natal year in a sample of spontaneous and assisted conception first-time mothers. %26lt;br%26gt;Method: Mothers (n = 134 (spontaneous (n = 81); assisted (n = 53) conception)) reported on a resilience measure (hardiness) during pregnancy and child sleep at 7 and 19 months post-partum. At 19 months post-partum, mothers also reported on their cognitions and involvement around their child%26apos;s bedtime, and half the sample used Actigraph monitors (Acitiwatch-16, Mini Mitter Co. Inc, Bend, OR, USA) to validate maternal report of child sleep. %26lt;br%26gt;Results: No significant differences were found between spontaneous and assisted conception mothers on any of the study variables; therefore, assisted and spontaneous samples were combined. Structural equation modelling confirmed that lower pre-birth maternal hardiness was associated with more problematic sleep-related cognitions (beta = 0.23, P %26lt; 0.01) and involvement at bedtime (beta = 0.29, P %26lt; 0.01) and poorer child sleep outcomes (beta = -0.33, P %26lt; 0.001) during toddlerhood, even after considering concurrent maternal mood and child temperament. %26lt;br%26gt;Conclusions: Pre-birth maternal hardiness rather than mode of conception contributes to parenting cognitions and behaviour around child sleep and, ultimately, toddlers%26apos; sleep outcomes. Findings suggest that targeting negative maternal perceptions of control and efficacy through clinical interventions could benefit toddlers%26apos; sleep.

• 出版日期2014-9