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Separation Anxiety and Bedtime Resistance in Eight-Month-Old Infants
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Kelmanson, Igor A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The study aimed to examine possible association between degree of maternally reported eight-month-old infants' separation anxiety and their bedtime resistance. It comprised 114 apparently healthy babies (50 boys and 64 girls), who were born in St Petersburg in 2007. The infants were born at term (gestational age greater than or equal to 37 weeks),…
Descriptors: Separation Anxiety, Infants, Infant Behavior, Resistance (Psychology)
Children's Sleep Regulation Is Linked to Mothers' Sleep-Related Childhood Experiences
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Aviezer, Ora; Scher, Anat – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2013
The present research explored how mothers' own childhood experiences are linked to their perceptions of their children's sleep regulation. It focused on collective sleeping; a practice used in the past in the Israeli kibbutz, and used a quasi-experimental research design to examine whether mothers who were raised in collective sleeping…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Separation Anxiety
The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in Infant Night Waking
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Karraker, Katherine – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
This literature review focuses on factors found to be associated with individual differences in infant night waking. Infant night waking that requires parent intervention to assist the infant to return to sleep is of special concern to parents because of the sleep deprivation and fragmentation that they experience. Both intrinsic and extrinsic…
Descriptors: Sleep, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Modification
The Effects of Morning Naps, Car Trips, and Maternal Separation on Adrenocortical Activity in Human Infants.
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Larson, Mary C.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Three studies examined adrenocortical activity in infants. Morning naps were associated with decreases in salivary cortisol. Riding for 40 minutes in a car lowered salivary cortisol concentrations. Thirty minutes of maternal separation in the laboratory resulted in higher salivary cortisol concentrations than did 30 minutes of play with the mother…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Motor Vehicles
Young Children's Adaptations to Repeated Separations from Their Mothers.
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Field, Tiffany M. – Child Development, 1991
Eighty infants, toddlers, and preschoolers were observed before, during, and after separations from their mothers. Results suggested that there were no negative cumulative effects of repeated separations. The children seemed to adapt to repeated separations following the stressful experience with their first separation. (GLR)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Change, Infants, Mothers
Cultural Differences in Sleeping Practices--Helping Early Childhood Educators Understand.
Gonzalez-Mena, Janet; Bhavnagri, Navaz Peshotan – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Discusses cultural differences in sleeping practices, focusing on how child caregivers can provide developmentally appropriate and culturally sensitive care. Describes co-sleeping as an accepted practice in many cultures with several benefits. Discusses the role of cultural values, beliefs, priorities, and goals and the importance of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences