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 3
Actual sleep onset, actual get-up time, and parental expectation discrepancy (Actual-Expected) for these two sleep-wake patterns are presented by children’s chronotype (CT score; ).
Morning Types ()
Neither Nor Types ()
Evening Types ()
Spearman Correlation
Sleep onset time (actual)
SC
20 10 (0 34)
20 37 (0 32)
21 10 (0 46)
,
FR
20 23 (0 39)
21 10 (0 51)
21 38 (0 46)
,
Get-up time (actual)
SC
6 59 (0 23)
7 23 (0 32)
7 38 (0 25)
,
FR
7 17 (0 27)
8 01 (0 40)
8 44 (0 29)
,
Sleep onset time (actual-expected)
SC
0 10 (0 13)
0 17 (0 23)
0 32 (0 43)
,
FR
−0 08 (0 15)
0 08 (0 20)
0 23 (0 46)
,
Get up time (actual-expected)
SC
−0 08 (0 20)
0 06 (0 30)
0 07 (0 25)
,
FR
−0 35 (0 32)
−0 17 (0 37)
0 08 (0 46)
,
Children’s chronotype rated as “rather a morning type than an evening type”, “neither nor”, or “rather an evening type than a morning type” were summarized into the category “Neither Nor Types”. SC: scheduled days, FR: free days.