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 6

Linear regression analyses of parental distress (subscale P-CDI as dependent variable) on children’s emotionality, chronotype, actual bedtime, time of lights off, sleep onset time, mothers’ sleep quality, and parental expectation discrepancy for the 3 sleep-wake patterns on scheduled days (SC; 𝑛=54).

	Statistics
	B	𝑃 Value
Children’s emotionality	0.43	𝑃=0.000
Children’s chronotype	−0.12	𝑃=0.38
Children’s bedtime (actual)	0.31	𝑃=0.04
Mothers’ sleep quality	−0.23	𝑃=0.03
Parental expectation discrepancy for bedtime (actual-expected)	0.12	𝑃=0.37
Children’s emotionality	0.43	𝑃=0.001
Children’s chronotype	−0.12	𝑃=0.38
Children’s time of lights off (actual)	0.30	𝑃=0.053
Mothers’ sleep quality	−0.25	𝑃=0.04
Parental expectation discrepancy for time of lights off (actual-expected)	0.09	𝑃=0.52
Children’s emotionality	0.438	𝑃=0.001
Children’s chronotype	−0.115	𝑃=0.46
Children’s sleep onset time (actual)	0.29	𝑃=0.108
Mothers’ sleep quality	−0.26	𝑃=0.046
Parental expectation discrepancy for sleep onset time (actual-expected)	−0.003	𝑃=0.99

𝐵: standardized coefficients.
Effects of sleep-wake patterns and of parental expectation discrepancy for children’s sleep-wake patterns on scheduled days (SC) are presented.