Research Article
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 1
Sample characteristics ().
| Sex of children | | Male female | 56% 44% | Birth order, mean (SD) [range] | 1.6 (0.7) [1–3] | First born second third born | 54% 31% 15% | Family size, mean (SD) [range] | 2.3 (0.7) [1–4] | Only child two children >two children | 7% 67% 26% | Socioeconomic status (SES) | | Middle class upper class | 48% 52% | Temperament scores of children, mean (SD) [range] | | Emotionality | 16.1 (3.8) [9–24] | Shyness | 11.0 (4.7) [5–25] | Activity | 19.3 (3.7) [9–25] | Sociability | 19.5 (2.4) [12–24] | Parental distress scores, mean (SD) [range] | | Parental distress (PD) | 23.2 (7.7) [13–48] | Parent-child dysfunctional interactions (P-CDI) | 17.8 (3.9) [12–28] | Difficult child (DC) | 25.9 (6.8) [13–46] | Total stress (TS) | 66.9 (14.7) [39–105] |
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Percentages, mean (standard deviation) and [range] are reported.
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