Progress 10/01/09 to 09/30/14
Outputs
Target Audience: Developmental scientists who study sleep in children and adolescents Developmental science community more broadly Families with young children Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Former post-doctoral associates, Nana Shin, Lori Staton, Ryan Kelly, Peggy Keller, and Kelly Tu have continued to collaborate on publication of research from this project. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Journal articles have been published in national and international journals specializing in sleep and human development. Presentations have been accepted at national and international conferences. Informational abstracts concerning the results of this sleep research have been disseminated through parent newsletters at the early childhood research site. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: The first year of data were collected for young children (30 to 66 months of age). A presentation of these data has been accepted at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (March, 2015). Objective 2: Three papers (Kelly & El Sheikh, 2014; Kelly et al, 2014; Vaughn et al., 2014, reported in previous section) demonstrated associations between sleep parameters and social functioning indicators. Objective 3: Three papers (Elsheikh, Tu, et al., 2014; Staton et al., 2014, rVaughn et al., reported in previous section) reported on associations between sleep parameters and cognitive functioning indicators. Objective 4: One paper (Keller et al., 2014, reported in previous section) reported on the interactions of sleep parameters with parasympathetic nervous system regulation
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
El-Sheikh, M., Tu, K. M., Erath, S. A., & Buckhalt, J. (2014). Family stress and adolescents cognitive functioning: Sleep as a protective factor. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 887-896. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000031
El-Sheikh, M., Bagley, E. J., Keiley, M. K., & Erath, S. A. (2014). Growth in body mass index from childhood into adolescence: The role of sleep duration and quality. Journal of Early Adolescence, 34, 1145-1166. doi: 10.1177/0272431613519499
Staton, L., Hinnant, J. B., Buckhalt, J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Sleep and cognitive performance: The role of income and respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity. Developmental Psychobiology, 56, 1528-1540. doi: 10.1002/dev.21247
Kelly, R. J., Marks, B. T., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Longitudinal relations between parent-child conflict and childrens adjustment: The role of childrens sleep. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42, 1175-1185. doi: 10.1007/s10802-014-9863-z
El-Sheikh, M., Kelly, R., Sadeh, A., & Buckhalt, J. A. (2014). Income, ethnicity and sleep: Coping as a moderator. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20, 441-448. DOI: 10.1037/a0036699
Bagley, E. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Relations between daytime pre-ejection period reactivity and sleep in late childhood. Journal of Sleep Research, 23, 337-340. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12117
Kelly, R.J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Reciprocal relations between childrens sleep and their adjustment over time. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1137-1147. DOI: 10.1037/a0034501
Keller, P. S., Kouros, C. D., Erath, S. A., Dahl, R. E., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Longitudinal relations between maternal depressive symptoms and child sleep problems: The role of parasympathetic nervous system reactivity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55, 172-179. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12151
Vaughn, B. E., Elmore-Staton, L., Shin, N., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Sleep as a support for social competence, peer relations, and cognitive functioning in preschool children. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 12, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2013.845778
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Progress 01/01/13 to 09/30/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Developmental scientists studying sleep and the impact(s) of sleep parameters (e.g., quality, overall duration) on social/emotional and cognitive functioning in children and adolescents. The broader community of developmental scientists studying child and adolescent development and adaptation. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Former post-doctoral scholars, Nana Shin and Lori Elmore-Staton, who worked on this project now hold assistant professor positions at other universities. Both of these scholars continue to collaborate and develop professionally through writing and publications from this project. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Journal articles and book chapters have been published and submitted for publication. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? 1. Continue data collection under existing grant funds. 2. Continue to write, submit, and publish papers and chapters from the project to relevant journals.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: A new project funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1251322, Sleep and Adapation in Preschool Childreh, total costs: $599,874) was awarded June 1, 2013 that will fund data collection for preschool children (30 - 66 months of age) through May 31, 2016. This grant will allow us to achieve aspects of goal 1. Objective 2: see articles published in 2013. Objective 3: data were collected and analyses prepared for submission for a journal article showing the effect of sleep on cognitive functionning in preschool children. The duration of sleep time was positively and significantly correlated with children's Peabody Picture Vocabulary test scores, even afrter controlling for age, sex, and ethnicity. Objective 4: see articles published in 2013.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
El-Sheikh, M., Kelly, R. & Rauer, A. (2013). Quick to berate, slow to sleep: Inerpartner psychological conflict, mental health, and sleep. Health Psychology, 32, 1057-1066. doi: 10.1037/a0031786
Bagley, E. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2013). Familial risk moderates the association between sleep and zMBI in children. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 38, 775-784. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jst031
El-Sheikh, M., Bagley, E. J., Keiley, M., Elmore-Staton, L., Chen, E., & Buckhalt, J. A. (2013). Economic adversity and childrens sleep problems: Multiple indicators and moderation of effects. Health Psychology, 32, 849-859. doi: 10.1037/a0030413
El-Sheikh, M., Bub, K. L., Kelly, R. J., & Buckhalt, J. A. (2013). Childrens sleep and adjustment: A residualized change analysis. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1591-1601. doi: 10.1037/a0030223
El-Sheikh, M., Arsiwalla, D. D., Staton, L., Dyer, W. J., & Vaughn, B. E. (2013). Associations between preschoolers' daytime and nighttime sleep parameters. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 11, 91-104. doi:10.1080/15402002.2011.625460
El-Sheikh, M., Erath, S. A. & Bagley, E. (2013). Parasympathetic nervous system activity and childrens sleep. Journal of Sleep Research, 22, 282-288. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12019
Kelly, R. & El-Sheikh, M. (2013). Longitudinal Relations between Marital Conflict and Childrens Sleep: The Role of Emotional Insecurity. Journal of Family Psychology, 27, 282-292. doi: 10.1037/a0031896
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Progress 01/01/12 to 12/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: M. El-Sheikh organized and hosted The Forum on Sleep and Child Development (April, 2012). The purpose was to bring together established researchers and junior scholars to facilitate dialogue, highlight critical areas in the study of typically developing children's sleep, integrate knowledge of sleep and child development across disciplines, and promote international and interdisciplinary collaborations. An overarching goal of the Forum was to create synergy between research areas that are beginning to manifest interconnections that need shaping and strengthening, with a goal of making conceptual advances about the ways that sleep and waking behaviors are intertwined and opportunities to integrate knowledge in ways that can advance heuristic models. In addition to conceptual advances, a second goal focused on the need for methodological advances, including contemporary approaches and tools in the measures and analyses of sleep to help accelerate the pace and enhance the quality of research in this interdisciplinary field. Forum on Sleep and Child Development Co-Chairs and Participants Forum co-organizers were Mona El-Sheikh and Joseph Buckhalt. Thirty-four scholars from 22 institutions (5 international) and several disciplines (e.g., pediatrics; public health; psychology; anthropology) convened to evaluate linkages between sleep and child development. Taken together, the range and breadth of work illustrates the many overlapping levels of investigation of sleep in child development, which span multiple domains from developmental neuroscience, to individual behavior, emotion, and cognition, to family processes, and socio-cultural contexts. Moderated group discussions were held to develop recommendations devoted to: (1) children's sleep and socio-cultural considerations, (2) family processes, (3) biobehavioral mechanisms, (4) sleep assessment, (5) statistics and research design, and (6) child behavior and health outcomes; discussions and recommendations of these five topics are presented in separate sections in this chapter while the those pertinent to the sixth topic are incorporated throughout the chapter. A closing session involved an integrated discussion to identify priorities for future study, and the group agreed on a set of recommendations that are summarized herein. Our references to "sleep" encompass multiple sleep/wake domains, unless further specificity is needed. Further, our references to "children" pertain to infants, children, and adolescents. . PARTICIPANTS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. TARGET AUDIENCES: Target audience: Developmental scientists engaged in research on children's sleep The Forum on Sleep and Child Development (described above) was intended to influence a much larger potential audience of research scientists than those who attended the Forum meetings. Preparation of a major Monograph for the Society for Research in Child Development will be the mechanism of dissemination to this audience. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
One result of the conference was the generation of an agenda for research on children's sleep for the next decade. Papers based on the conference proceedings are being prepared for a major monograph. The following grant proposals were submitted: El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Erath, S. A., & Keiley, M. Family aggression and trajectories of adolescent adaptation: Bioregulatory effects. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Funded Grant No. R01-HD046795-06 ($2,738,256); 8/1/2012-5/31/2017. Vaughn, B. E., El-Sheikh, M. Sleep and adaptation for preschool children. National Science Foundation. Funding decision pending.
Publications
- Staton, L. E., El-Sheikh, M., Vaughn, B., & Arsiwalla, D. D. (2012). Preschooler's daytime respiratory sinus arrhythmia and nighttime sleep, Physiology and Behavior, 107, 414-417.
- Rauer, A. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2012) Reciprocal pathways between intimate partner violence and sleep in men and women. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 470-477.
- El-Sheikh, M., Kelly, R. J.,* Bagley, E.,* & Wetter, E. K.* (2012). Parental depressive symptoms and children's sleep: The role of family conflict. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 53, 806-814.
- Wetter, E.,* & El-Sheikh, M. (2012). Trajectories of children's internalizing symptoms: The role of maternal internalizing symptoms, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and child sex. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 53, 168-177.
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Progress 01/01/11 to 12/31/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Presentations of project findings were made at the Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development (Montreal, CA; March 31-April 3). Pamphlets highlighting the importance of sleep for child development were made available on-line (www.auburn.edu/humsci/~elshemm/sleep_resources.html. and at the Sleep, Health, and Development Lab located on the Auburn University campus. Mona El-Sheikh presented a brown bag talk to the graduate students and Human Development faculty at New York University focused on sleep as a predictor of child adjustment. Participating mothers, fathers, and children were given tips to improve their sleep hygiene. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals: Brian E Vaughn (PI) Mona El-Sheikh (Co-PI) Nana Shin (Post-doctoral associate) Lisa Kryzsik (Post-graduate associate Lori Staton- Project Manager, Bridget Wingo- Lab Coordinator Dilbur Arsiwalla-Post doctoral fellow, Justin Dyer-Post doctoral fellow, Ryan Kelly-graduate student Partner organizations: Harris Early Learning Center of Birmingham (AL), Opelika City School System, Lee County School System Collaborators: Joseph Buckhalt-College of Education Kristen Bub-College of Human Sciences Edith Chen - The University of British Columbia (Department of Psychology) Antoion J. Santos - ISPA-University Institute, Lisbon, PT Manuels Verissimo- ISPA-University Institute, Lisbon PT Professional development: 7 undergraduates were trained to conduct interviews with children and to collect sleep diary data; 2 postdoctoral fellows, the project manager (also a graduate student) and a young assistant professor were co-authors on papers stemming from these data, which provided them with the opportunity for professional development. TARGET AUDIENCES: Target audiences include the community of developmental scientists with interests in sleep and its antecedents, consequences, and correlates, graduate and undergraduate students who take our courses in the Department of Human Development & Family Studies, educators (preschool, elementary, and middle school teachers and administrators) and interested parents. Efforts include publishing scientific articles (4 reported for this project period), presentations at professional conferences (3 such presentations in this project year); information from this project also informs our instruction in HDFS classes, so students are exposed to the most current information concerning the importance of sleep for healthy growth and development; Dr. El-Sheikh also includes laboratory instruction on use of the instruments and protocols for sleep assessment as part of her seminar activities and students are invited to become involved in practicum activities to acquire the skills associated with sleep assessment. Communications with educators include public presentations in the schools and preschools hosting the data collection efforts as well as public presentations to parents in these institutional settings. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: No major changes to report
Impacts
Results of studies reported below contributed to multiple outcomes/impacts. Data from the preschool sample demonstrated that poor quality sleep had negative, significant associations with child attachment representations, in line with our predictions. Data from the school-age samples demonstrated that sleep quality and duration predicted mental health outcome variables and that marital conflict undermined sleep quality. Furthermore, for school-age children, good sleep quality supported cognitive/academic achievement performance, in line with hypotheses. The activities of the project include data collection, organization, and analyses that led directly to these outcomes. Results from these studies constitute resources used by the investigators in support of new grant applications to NIH and NSF that will be reviewed and/or awarded in the 2012 project year.
Publications
- Vaughn, B. E., El-Sheikh, M., Shin, N., Elmore-Staton, L., Krzysik, L., & Monteiro, L. (2011). Attachment Representations and Sleep Quality in Preschool Age Children, Attachment & Human Development, 13, 525-540.
- Kelly, R. J. & El-Sheikh, M. (2011). Marital conflict and children's sleep: Reciprocal relations and socioeconomic effects. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 412-422.
- El-Sheikh, M. & Arsiwalla, D. D. (2011). Children's sleep, skin conductance level and mental health. Journal of Sleep Research, 20, 326-337.
- Bub, K. L., Buckhalt, J. A., & El-Sheikh, M. (2011). Children's sleep and cognitive performance: A cross-domain analysis of change over time. Developmental Psychology, 47, 1504-1514.
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Progress 01/01/10 to 12/31/10
Outputs
OUTPUTS: During the past year, Dr. Vaughn and Dr. El-Sheikh's labs have collected objective and subjective sleep data from over 300 preschool and school-aged children. In addition to sleep data, Dr. Vaughn and his staff have conducted observations and interviews with preschool children to assess peer relations, behavior, and social skills. Dr. El-Shiekh's lab has also assessed over 250 school-aged children's physiological activity (i.e., vagal tone) and cognitive abilities using standardized tests and laboratory based assessments of information processing. A number (> 15) of undergraduate and graduate students have been trained to collect sleep and physiological data and post-doctoral fellows (N = 3) have been trained to analyze physiological data. Dr. Vaughn routinely conducts information sessions for parents and administrators from the Harris Early Learning Center (HELC; Birmingham, AL). During the sessions, he discusses National Sleep Foundation age appropriate sleep recommendations. He provides recent research that links sleep to child social, emotional, behavior, and cognitive adjustment and addresses questions or concerns of parents/school administrators. Educational materials and resources regarding sleep hygiene are available to all HELC visitors. In addition, Dr. El-Sheikh and her collaborators have presented sleep research to low-income and ethnic minority parents attending St. Luke's Preschool Partnership's monthly parent workshop (i.e., community sponsored education seminars), the Holmes Partnership Conference (i.e., School counselors and administrators across the US), multiple graduate and undergraduate classes at Auburn University, and fifth grade science students attending Auburn City Schools. Additionally, articles and brochures were distributed to three local school systems. Dr. El-Sheikh's webpage (www.humsci.auburn.edu/~elshemm) was updated and shared with all research participants and participating daycares and schools. Lastly, Dr. El-Sheikh recently edited a book titled "Sleep and Development: Familial and Socio-cultural Considerations" which is aimed at accelerating the understanding of the interface between family functioning, children's sleep, and their developmental outcomes. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals: Brian Vaughn (PI); Mona El-Sheikh (PI); Lori Staton (Research Associate); Bridget Wingo (Research Assistant); Nana Shin (Post-doctoral Fellow); Lisa Krzysik (Research Assistant); Vanessa Finnegan (Research Assistant); Jill Eshelman (Research Assistant); Jazmynn Hardy (Research Assistant); Ryan Kelly (Research Assistant); James Hinnant (Post-doctoral Fellow); Dilbur Arsiwalla(Post-doctoral Fellow). Collaborators: The Harris Early Learning Center, a daycare center affiliated with Auburn University, was used as one of the primary data collection site; Lee County, Alabama school system; Opelika City school system; Russell County, Alabama school system. Training: A number of undergraduate and graduate students have been trained to collect sleep and physiological data and post-doctoral fellows have been trained to analyze physiological data. TARGET AUDIENCES: Parents, teachers, school administrators, and children from participating school systems and daycare centers were provided information about the importance of sleep and given resources and tips to increase their sleep quality and amount. Researchers across diverse disciplines including anthropology, pediatrics, education, and child development are the target audience of Dr. El-Sheikhs book titled "Sleep and Development: Familial and Socio-Cultural Considerations (Oxford University Press). It is our hope that this work will increase the momentum of pertinent research by facilitating integration of knowledge and approaches across disciplines, which is fundamental for a vigorous comprehensive science of sleep as it relates to children's multifaceted development. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
Sleep deprivation, poor sleep quality, and erratic sleep schedules in children have unfortunately become common in the United States and many other countries. While common wisdom has always been that children need sufficient sleep, the consequences of poor sleep have only recently begun to be investigated scientifically. Rapidly accumulating evidence suggests that multiple domains of child development are related to sleep, including cognitive development, emotional and behavioral adjustment, physical growth and development, and the incidence of numerous medical disorders. Findings from this project include documentation of normative patterns of sleep for children from early preschool ages to school age and how the patterns relate to children's social, emotional, and cognitive behaviors in the context of peer and family groups. Further, project results highlight the development of personal resources (e.g., physiological, socio-cultural) that may protect the child from debilitating effects of sleep deprivation or, may exacerbate those effects. Specifically, results indicate that family context, including socio-economic status and parental education, moderates the relationship between children's sleep disruptions and cognitive functioning. Perhaps most significantly, data obtained from this project has led Dr. El-Sheikh to edit a book focused on the integration of sleep and developmental research, while considering the broader socio-cultural context.
Publications
- Monteiro, L., Fernandes, M., Verissimo, M., Torres, N, & Vaughn, B.E. (2010).Fathers perspectives about their involvement in the family: Associations with what is desired by the mother and child characteristics. Interamerican Journal of Psychology/Revista Interamericana de Psicologia, 44. 1-11.
- Verissimo, M., Santos, A. J., Vaughn, B. E., Torres, N., Monteiro, L., Santos, O. (2011). Quality of attachment to father and mother and number of reciprocal friends. Early Child Development and Care, 181, 27-38.
- Shin, N., Vaughn, B. E., Kim, M., Krzysik, L., Bost, K. K., McBride, B., Santos, A. J., & Peceguina, I. (2011). Longitudinal Analyses of a Hierarchical Model of Peer Social Competence for Preschool Children: Structural Fidelity And External Correlates, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 57, 73-103.
- Hinnant, J. B. Staton, L., & El-Sheikh, M. (2011). Developmental trajectories of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and pre-ejection period in middle childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 53, 59-68.
- El-Sheikh, M., Keiley, M., & Hinnant, B.(2010). Developmental trajectories of skin conductance level in middle childhood: Sex, race, and externalizing behavior problems as predictors of growth. Biological Psychology, 83, 116-124.
- El-Sheikh, M., Kelly, R. J., Hinnant, J. B., & Buckhalt, J. A. (2010). Children's sleep and adjustment over time: The role of the socio-economic context. Child Development, 81, 870-883.
- El-Sheikh, M., Hinnant, J. B., Kelly, R. J., & Erath, S. A. (2010). Maternal psychological control and child internalizing symptoms: Vulnerability and protective factors across bioregulatory and ecological domains. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51, 188-198.
- Keller, P. S., El-Sheikh, M., Vaughn, B., & Granger, D. (2010). Relations between mucosal immunity and childrens mental health: The role of child sex. Physiology and Behavior, 101, 705-712.
- Rauer, A., Kelly, R. J., Buckhalt, J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2010). Sleeping with one eye open: Marital abuse as an antecedent of poor sleep. Journal of Family Psychology, 24, 667-677.
- Monteiro, L., Verissimo, M., Vaughn, B. E., Santos, A. J., Torres, N., Fernandes, M. (2010). The organization of childrens secure base behaviour in two parent Portuguese families and Fathers participation in child related activities. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7, 545-561.
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