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 5

Associations between parental expectation discrepancy for children’s sleep onset time and sleep quality parameters (𝑛=54).

	Correlations^#
	SC	FR
Settling period	𝑟=0.31^‡	𝑟=0.47^×
Time in bed without sleeping	𝑟=0.35^†	𝑟=0.50^×
Sleep latency	𝑟=0.23	𝑟=0.39^†
Difficulties falling asleep	𝑟=0.33^†	𝑟=0.21
Night waking	𝑟=−0.01	𝑟=0.18
Overall sleep quality	𝑟=−0.15	𝑟=−0.23^‡

^#Spearman correlations were calculated for settling period, time in bed without sleeping, sleep latency, and overall sleep quality; Kendall correlations for difficulties falling asleep and night waking.
^×𝑃≤0.001, ^†𝑃≤0.01, ^‡𝑃<0.05.
SC: scheduled days, FR: free days.