Sundnes Anita, Andenaes Agnes
University of Oslo.
Infant Ment Health J. 2016 May;37(3):247-58. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21568. Epub 2016 Apr 21.
The sleep-cycle development of infants is influenced by familial and sociocultural conditions, but there is a lack of knowledge on how parental regulation of infant sleep is related to the specific life situation of a family. This article describes a context-sensitive study of parental regulation of infant sleep that includes the whole 24-hr day, parents' intentions, and familial and sociocultural conditions. The results are based on a longitudinal qualitative study in Norway of 51 families. Parents were interviewed in the infants' first year of life and approximately 18 months later. An interpretive analysis in four steps was conducted, informed by cultural psychological perspectives on development. The parents were found to perform five types of regulatory actions: facilitating sleep, letting sleep, letting be awake, keeping awake, and waking. These actions were performed continuously throughout the 24-hr day, each to different extents and at different hours in individual families, forming a regulation cycle. We describe patterns and variations in regulation cycles, changes over time as increased social synchronization, and how the regulation cycle is embedded in familial and sociocultural conditions. Finally, implications for clinical practice are discussed.
婴儿睡眠周期的发展受到家庭和社会文化条件的影响，但对于父母对婴儿睡眠的调节如何与家庭的具体生活状况相关联，我们却知之甚少。本文描述了一项对父母对婴儿睡眠调节的情境敏感型研究，该研究涵盖了完整的24小时、父母的意图以及家庭和社会文化条件。研究结果基于挪威对51个家庭的纵向定性研究。在婴儿出生后的第一年以及大约18个月后对父母进行了访谈。依据发展的文化心理学视角，分四个步骤进行了解释性分析。研究发现父母会采取五种调节行为：促进睡眠、任其睡眠、任其清醒、保持清醒和唤醒。这些行为在24小时内持续进行，在各个家庭中，每种行为的程度和时间各不相同，形成了一个调节周期。我们描述了调节周期的模式和变化、随着社会同步性增加而随时间发生的变化，以及调节周期如何嵌入家庭和社会文化条件之中。最后，讨论了对临床实践的启示。
