Sleep Disorders

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 3

Actual sleep onset, actual get-up time, and parental expectation discrepancy (Actual-Expected) for these two sleep-wake patterns are presented by children’s chronotype (CT score; 𝑛 = 5 4 ).
Morning Types ( 𝑛 = 1 8 )Neither Nor Types ( 𝑛 = 2 6 )Evening Types ( 𝑛 = 1 0 )Spearman Correlation
Sleep onset time (actual)SC20 ∶ 10 (0 ∶ 34)20 ∶ 37 (0 ∶ 32)21 ∶ 10 (0 ∶ 46) 𝑟 = 0 . 5 3 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 0
FR20 ∶ 23 (0 ∶ 39)21 ∶ 10 (0 ∶ 51)21 ∶ 38 (0 ∶ 46) 𝑟 = 0 . 6 0 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 0
Get-up time (actual)SC6 ∶ 59 (0 ∶ 23)7 ∶ 23 (0 ∶ 32)7 ∶ 38 (0 ∶ 25) 𝑟 = 0 . 5 4 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 0
FR7 ∶ 17 (0 ∶ 27)8 ∶ 01 (0 ∶ 40)8 ∶ 44 (0 ∶ 29) 𝑟 = 0 . 7 4 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 0
Sleep onset time (actual-expected)SC0 ∶ 10 (0 ∶ 13)0 ∶ 17 (0 ∶ 23)0 ∶ 32 (0 ∶ 43) 𝑟 = 0 . 3 1 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 2 4
FR−0 ∶ 08 (0 ∶ 15)0 ∶ 08 (0 ∶ 20)0 ∶ 23 (0 ∶ 46) 𝑟 = 0 . 4 1 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 3
Get up time (actual-expected)SC−0 ∶ 08 (0 ∶ 20)0 ∶ 06 (0 ∶ 30)0 ∶ 07 (0 ∶ 25) 𝑟 = 0 . 3 9 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 4
FR−0 ∶ 35 (0 ∶ 32)−0 ∶ 17 (0 ∶ 37)0 ∶ 08 (0 ∶ 46) 𝑟 = 0 . 4 7 , 𝑃 = 0 . 0 0 0
Children’s chronotype rated as “rather a morning type than an evening type”, “neither nor”, or “rather an evening type than a morning type” were summarized into the category “Neither Nor Types”.
SC: scheduled days, FR: free days.