Research Article

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

Table 3

Multiple regression of perceived sleep quality by infant’s age and mother’s attachment measures ( ).

Dependent variableCosleeping
Sleeping and falling asleep difficulties
Perception of sleep as a problem

Step 1
 Child’s age−.29**−.20*−.17
.08**.04*.03
Step 2
 Child’s age−.28**−0.15−.15
 Anxiety orientation.02.12.07
 Avoidance orientation.09.40***.24**
.09**.24***.10**
(3, 119)3.96**12.27***4.52**

; ** ; *** .