Department of Family Sciences, University of Kentucky, 160 Funkhouser Drive, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA.
Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX), Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2020 Apr;51(2):239-253. doi: 10.1007/s10578-019-00926-0.
Sleep has been linked to adjustment difficulties in both children and adolescents; yet little is known about the long-term impact of childhood sleep on subsequent development. This study tested whether childhood sleep problems, sleep quantity, and chronotype predicted internalizing and externalizing problems during adolescence. Latent Growth Modeling using the Czech portion of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (N = 4393) was utilized to test the developmental trajectories of sleep characteristics (from 1.5 to 7 years) as predictors of adjustment problems trajectories (from 11 to 18 years). Findings provided evidence that children with higher levels of sleep problems at 1.5 years (and throughout childhood) reported higher levels of internalizing and externalizing problems at age 11. Additionally, greater eveningness at age 1.5 predicted a greater increase in externalizing problems from ages 11 to 18 years. The results emphasize the importance of childhood sleep problems in evaluating the risk of future adjustment difficulties.
睡眠与儿童和青少年的适应困难有关；然而，关于儿童睡眠对随后发展的长期影响知之甚少。本研究旨在测试儿童睡眠问题、睡眠量和睡眠时型是否可以预测青少年时期的内化和外化问题。本研究利用捷克部分的妊娠和儿童纵向研究（European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood，ELSPAC）的数据，采用潜在增长模型（Latent Growth Modeling），检验了睡眠特征（从 1.5 岁到 7 岁）的发展轨迹，作为调整问题轨迹（从 11 岁到 18 岁）的预测指标。研究结果表明，1.5 岁时睡眠问题较多的儿童（以及整个儿童时期）在 11 岁时报告的内化和外化问题水平较高。此外，1.5 岁时的晚睡型预示着从 11 岁到 18 岁期间，外化问题的增加幅度更大。研究结果强调了儿童睡眠问题在评估未来适应困难风险方面的重要性。
