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. 2022 May:67:101713.
doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101713. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development

Michelle Lobermeier  1 , Angela D Staples  1 , Catherine Peterson  1 , Alissa C Huth-Bocks  2 , Seth Warschausky  3 , H Gerry Taylor  4 , Judith Brooks  5 , Angela Lukomski  6 , Renée Lajiness-O'Neill  7
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Cumulative risk, infant sleep, and infant social-emotional development

Michelle Lobermeier et al. Infant Behav Dev. 2022 May.

Abstract

The effect of cumulative biological, psychosocial, and demographic risk and infant sleep on infant social-emotional functioning in 12-month-old infants (46% female) was examined in data from racially (30% Black, 60% White, 10% multiracial/other) and socioeconomically (41% below median income) diverse caregivers (N = 468, M = 30.42 years old, SD = 5.65) recruited from two midwestern states in 2019-2020. Due to the major changes in sleep patterns during infancy and the reported association between sleep and social-emotional functioning, this study also examined whether sleep moderates the association between risk and infant social-emotional functioning and potentially promotes healthy social-emotional functioning despite risk. Greater cumulative risk was associated with poorer sleep efficiency and more social-emotional problems, but was not associated with the general acquisition of social-emotional milestones. Results also suggested that poorer sleep efficiency was associated with more social-emotional problems and poorer social-emotional milestone acquisition. No significant interaction effects were found between cumulative risk and infant sleep. Risk and sleep appear to have unique associations with infant social-emotional problems and development; thus both could be targeted in early intervention to promote social-emotional functioning during infancy and early childhood.

Keywords: Cumulative risk; Infant; Sleep; Social-emotional.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Proposed Conceptual Model of Infant Sleep Moderating the Association Between Cumulative Risk and Social-Emotional Functioning.
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