The Relationship between Mothers’ Attachment Orientations and Their Infants’ Sleep Patterns

Table 4

Multiple regressions of hours of sleep by child’s age and mother’s attachment measures (𝑛=123).

Dependent variable	Sleep at night; 𝛽	Sleep in the daytime; 𝛽	Time required to put to bed at night; 𝛽	Nocturnal wakings; 𝛽	Nighttime wakefulness; 𝛽
Step 1
Child’s age	.10	−.58***	.06	−.24**	−.20*
𝑅^2	.01	.33***	.01	.06**	.04*
Step 2
Child’s age	.09	−.58***	−.04	−.20*	−.17*
Anxiety orientation	.05	−.07	−.01	.12	.06
Avoidance orientation	−.15	.01	.30***	.29***	.36***
𝑅^2	.03	.34***	.09**	.17***	.19***
𝐹 (3, 119)	1.33	19.95***	4.04**	8.03***	8.87***

^∗𝑃<.05; **𝑃<.01; ***𝑃<.001.