Do Parental Expectations Play a Role in Children's Sleep and
Mothers' Distress? An Exploration of the Goodness of Fit Concept
in 54 Mother-Child Dyads
Table 2
Descriptive statistics for parent-reported children’s actual and expected sleep-wake patterns on scheduled (SC) and free days (FR; ).
actual
expected
Statistics#
SC*
FR*
SC
FR
Differences FR-SC
Differences actual-expected
Interaction
Bed time
20 05 (0 29) ×
20 34 (0 47)
19 55 (0 25)
20 36 (0 46)
—
—
Time of lights off
20 20 (0 34) ×
20 47 (0 49)
20 05 (0 29)
20 44 (0 44)
—
—
Sleep latency
0 14 (0 17)
0 12 (0 17)
0 12 (0 07)
NA
NA
NA
Sleep onset
20 34 (0 40) ×
21 00 (0 53)
20 17 (0 31)
20 56 (0 47)
—
—
Get-up time
7 17 (0 31)
7 55 (0 46) ‡
7 16 (0 19)
8 13 (0 33)
—
—
Sleep period
10 43 (0 37)
10 55 (0 41) ×
10 59 (0 32)
11 17 (0 43)
0 14,
−0 20,
Time in bed
11 13 (0 34) †
11 20 (0 44) †
11 21 (0 29)
11 37 (0 45)
0 13,
−0 11,
Settling period
0 29 (0 27) ‡
0 26 (0 28)
0 22 (0 18)
0 20 (0 16)
−0 03,
0 07,
MSP
1 51 (0 32) †
2 23 (0 46)
1 40 (0 28)
2 20 (0 43)
Reported as mean (standard deviation), in hours minutes.
*Wilcoxon-test between actual and expected sleep-wake patterns, separately for scheduled and free days. #Twoway of analysis of variance for repeated measures with interaction. If the interaction was not significant, the results of the additive model are presented as differences. Otherwise the results are presented as averages and tested by the Wilcoxon-Test. ×, †, ‡. NA: not applicable, SC: scheduled days, FR: free days.
