Bilgin, Ayten and Morales-Muñoz, Isabel and Winsper, Catherine and Wolke, Dieter (2024) Associations between bed-sharing in infancy and childhood internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Attachment and Human Development, 26 (5). pp. 403-422. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2380427
Bilgin, Ayten and Morales-Muñoz, Isabel and Winsper, Catherine and Wolke, Dieter (2024) Associations between bed-sharing in infancy and childhood internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Attachment and Human Development, 26 (5). pp. 403-422. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2380427
Bilgin, Ayten and Morales-Muñoz, Isabel and Winsper, Catherine and Wolke, Dieter (2024) Associations between bed-sharing in infancy and childhood internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Attachment and Human Development, 26 (5). pp. 403-422. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2380427
Abstract
Bed-sharing is a controversial but common parenting practice with claimed benefits for emotional and behavioral development. Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (<i>N</i> = 16,599), this prospective study investigated whether bed-sharing at 9 months is associated with childhood internalizing and externalizing symptom trajectories. Children were grouped by their patterns of co-developing internalizing and externalizing symptoms from 3 to 11 years of age using a parallel process latent class growth analysis. There were no associations between bed-sharing at 9 months of age and internalizing and externalizing symptom trajectories across childhood. This finding suggests that bed-sharing at 9 months has no positive or negative influence on the development of internalizing and externalizing symptoms across childhood. Clinicians should inform parents that bed-sharing during the second half of the first year is unlikely to have an impact on the later emotional and behavioral development of the children.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Beds; Child; Child Behavior; Child Development; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Infant; Male; Parenting; Prospective Studies; United Kingdom |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2024 18:43 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:27 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39393 |
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