Book chapter
Sleep and Temperament in Early Childhood
Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior, pp.193-215
Springer Nature
2019
Abstract
Sleep and temperament represent key behaviours in early childhood that reflect underlying individual constitutional differences and influence each other, and many developmental processes over time. This chapter aims to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the early childhood temperament field including definitions, history, and measurement issues. An overview of the key findings in regards to early sleep behaviours and temperament interactions across the first 5 years of life is provided, and the important role of the parenting environment is briefly explained. While there remain a number of challenges to overcome in the field, two key areas are further developed here. Future work should aim to increase our understanding about why early sleep and temperament are linked, and about the mechanisms involved in transactional developmental systems involving sleep, temperament, genes, and the parenting environment. Multi-disciplinary and creative modelling approaches will be needed to advance the field which should seek to create translatable research findings for the early childhood health and education sectors. Research should contribute to identifying children at the highest risk of ongoing sleep and social-emotional adjustment problems, and address these with appropriately targeted prevention and intervention strategies that support parents, educators, and health practitioners in their roles.
Details
- Title
- Sleep and Temperament in Early Childhood
- Authors
- Kate E. Williams (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Zlatan Križan (Editor) - Iowa State University
- Publication details
- Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior, pp.193-215
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-30628-1_11; 10.1007/978-3-030-30628-1
- ISBN
- 9783030306281
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99990898202621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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