Shimizu Mina, Teti Douglas M
Auburn University.
The Pennsylvania State University.
Infant Child Dev. 2018 May-Jun;27(3). doi: 10.1002/icd.2080. Epub 2018 Jan 29.
The present study examined differences in social criticism and maternal distress and in household, maternal, and infant characteristics between families who co-slept with their infants beyond 6 months and those who moved their infants to a separate room by 6 months. Data for infant sleeping arrangements, preferences for their sleeping arrangement choices, criticism, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and worries about infant sleep were collected from 103 European American mothers during the infant's first year. Mothers who co-slept with their infants beyond 6 months (persistent co-sleepers) were more likely than mothers who moved their infants to solitary sleep by 6 months to receive criticism and report depression and worry about infants' sleep behavior, even after controlling for preference for the sleep arrangement they used. Interestingly, criticism was associated with maternal depression and worries only for persistent co-sleeping mothers. Further, these mothers had lower income, reported greater space constraints, were younger, single, or unemployed, less likely to have a Bachelor's degree, and more likely to have infants with greater negative affectivity or problematic night waking, compared to mothers of solitary sleeping infants. Adherence to cultural norms regarding infant sleeping arrangements may be a strong predictor of social criticism and maternal well-being.
本研究考察了婴儿6个月后仍与父母同睡的家庭和婴儿6个月前就被转移到单独房间的家庭在社会批评、母亲苦恼以及家庭、母亲和婴儿特征方面的差异。在婴儿出生后的第一年，从103名欧美母亲那里收集了关于婴儿睡眠安排、对其睡眠安排选择的偏好、批评、抑郁和焦虑症状以及对婴儿睡眠的担忧等数据。即使在控制了对所采用睡眠安排的偏好之后，那些婴儿6个月后仍与父母同睡的母亲（持续同睡者）比那些婴儿6个月前就被转移到单独睡眠的母亲更有可能受到批评，并报告有抑郁情绪以及对婴儿睡眠行为感到担忧。有趣的是，批评仅与持续同睡母亲的抑郁和担忧有关。此外，与单独睡眠婴儿的母亲相比，这些母亲收入较低，报告称空间限制更大，年龄更小、单身或失业，拥有学士学位的可能性更小，并且她们的婴儿更有可能具有更强的负面情绪或夜间醒来问题。坚持关于婴儿睡眠安排的文化规范可能是社会批评和母亲幸福感的一个强有力的预测指标。
