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Marital Hostility and Child Sleep Problems: Direct and Indirect Associations via Hostile Parenting

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  • The current study examined two family process predictors of parent-reported child sleep problems at 4.5 years in an adoption sample: marital hostility and hostile parenting. Participants were 361 linked triads of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children. We examined direct and indirect pathways from marital hostility to child sleep problems via hostile parenting. Mothers’ marital hostility at 9 months was associated with child sleep problems at 4.5 years. Fathers’ marital hostility at 9 months evidenced an indirect effect on child sleep problems at 4.5 years via fathers’ hostile parenting at 27 months. Findings were significant even after controlling for genetic influences on child sleep (i.e., birth parent internalizing disorders). The findings suggest targets for prevention and intervention programs that are potentially modifiable (e.g., hostile parenting, marital hostility), and inform theory by demonstrating that relations among marital hostility, hostile parenting, and child sleep problems are significant after accounting for genetic influences.
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  • Keywords: marital hostility, adoption, sleep problems, early childhood, parenting
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  • Rhoades, K. A., Leve, L. D., Harold, G. T., Mannering, A. M., Neiderhiser, J. M., Shaw, D. S., Natsuaki, M. N., & Reiss, D. Marital hostility and child sleep problems: Direct and indirect associations via hostile parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, Vol 26(4), Aug 2012, 488-498. doi: 10.1037/a0029164
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  • This project was supported by the following grant: R01 HD042608; NICHD, NIDA, and the Office of the Director; NIH; U.S. PHS (PI Years 1–5: David Reiss, MD; PI Years 6–10: Leslie Leve, PhD). The writing of this manuscript was partially supported by the following grant: P30 DA023920, NIDA, NIH, U.S. PHS. Gordon Harold was supported by a project grant awarded by The Nuffield Foundation.
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