Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, S-211 Henderson Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2010 Jun;24(3):307-15. doi: 10.1037/a0019306.
In the present study, linkages were examined between parental behaviors (maternal practices) at bedtime, emotional availability of mothering at bedtime, and infant sleep quality in a cross-sectional sample of families with infants between 1 and 24 months of age. Observations of maternal behaviors and maternal emotional availability were conducted independently by 2 sets of trained observers who were blind to data being coded by the other. With infant age statistically controlled, specific maternal behaviors at bedtime were unrelated to infant sleep disruptions at bedtime and during the night. By contrast, emotional availability of mothering at bedtime was significantly and inversely related to infant sleep disruption, and, although these links were stronger for younger infants, they were significant for older infants as well. Maternal emotional availability was also inversely linked with mothers' ratings of whether their infants had sleep difficulties. These findings demonstrate that parents' emotional availability at bedtimes may be as important, if not more important, than bedtime practices in predicting infant sleep quality. Results support the theoretical premise that parents' emotional availability to children in sleep contexts promotes feelings of safety and security and, as a result, better-regulated child sleep.
在本研究中，我们考察了 1 至 24 月龄婴儿家庭中，父母睡前行为（母亲行为）、睡前母亲情感投入与婴儿睡眠质量之间的关系。母亲行为和母亲情感投入的观察是由两组独立的受过训练的观察者进行的，他们对由另一方编码的数据并不知情。在控制了婴儿年龄的影响后，特定的母亲睡前行为与婴儿睡前和夜间的睡眠中断无关。相比之下，睡前母亲的情感投入与婴儿的睡眠中断呈显著负相关，并且尽管这些联系在年幼婴儿中更为强烈，但在年龄较大的婴儿中也具有统计学意义。母亲的情感投入与母亲对婴儿是否存在睡眠困难的评价也呈负相关。这些发现表明，父母在睡前的情感投入可能与预测婴儿睡眠质量的睡前行为一样重要，如果不是更重要的话。研究结果支持了这样一种理论前提，即在睡眠环境中父母对孩子的情感投入会促进孩子的安全感，从而使孩子的睡眠更有规律。
