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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Masahiro Takeshima, Hidenobu Ohta, Tomoko Hosoya, Masakazu Okada, Yukako Iida, Aiko Moriwaki, Hidetoshi Takahashi, Yoko Kamio, Kazuo Mishima
Summary: The study found that as school grade increased, children's sleep duration decreased, and there was a certain association between sleep habits/disorders and emotional/behavioral problems among school-age children, with sleep symptoms at wake time being the most important factor.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Pediatrics
Anabela Afonso, Goncalo Jacinto, Paulo Infante, Teresa Engana
Summary: This study investigated the sleep habits and problems of Portuguese primary school children and found associations between sleep and dietary habits, presence of electronic devices in the bedroom, and engagement in physical and sports activities.
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Pediatrics
Michal Kahn, Natalie Barnett, Michael Gradisar
Summary: This study compared the frequency, difficulty, duration, and helpfulness of three infant Behavioral Sleep Intervention (BSI) approaches (Unmodified Extinction, Modified Extinction, and Parental Presence) in real-world settings. It also examined the effectiveness and safety of these approaches by comparing various outcomes between parents who had implemented the interventions and those who had not. The results showed that Unmodified and Modified Extinction were associated with longer and more consolidated infant sleep, and the implementation of these approaches did not lead to negative outcomes in terms of parent sleep, sleepiness, depression, or parent-infant bonding.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2023)
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Pediatrics
Michal Kahn, Natalie Barnett, Michael Gradisar
Summary: This study compares the frequency, timing, duration, difficulty, and helpfulness of different infant Behavioral Sleep Intervention (BSI) approaches, and examines their effectiveness and safety. The results show that Unmodified and Modified Extinction methods are associated with longer and more consolidated infant sleep, and implementing these methods is not linked with negative outcomes, providing additional evidence for their safety and effectiveness.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Taeyeop Lee, Jichul Kim, Kee Jeong Park, Hyo-Won Kim
Summary: This study compared the behavioral and cognitive characteristics of poor and good sleepers with and without developmental disability in a community-based sample of preschool children. Results indicated that poor sleepers with developmental disability exhibited higher levels of attention problems and aggressive behaviors, as well as more depressive symptoms and stress reported by caregivers compared to good sleepers with developmental disability. Additionally, poor sleepers without developmental disability only scored significantly higher on the Anxious/Depressed subscale of the Child Behavior Checklist when compared to good sleepers without developmental disability. Cognitive development and adaptive functioning were not significantly different between poor and good sleepers with and without developmental disability. The study concluded that externalizing problems such as aggressive behaviors, rather than cognitive development, are associated with sleep difficulties in preschool children with developmental disability.
Letter
Pediatrics
Melissa Borrelli, Iris Scala, Paola Festa, Dario Bruzzese, Ambrosina Michelotti, Elena Cantone, Adele Corcione, Martina Fragnito, Vincenzo Miranda, Francesca Santamaria
Summary: The study focused on translating the original 33-item CSHQ from English to Italian and assessing its reliability for use in 4-10 years-old children in Italy. The Italian version of CSHQ showed good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, indicating its value in evaluating sleep behavior in children. Further research is needed to establish the validity of CSHQ-IT in children with sleep-disordered breathing.
ITALIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Meirong Yang, Huan Qi, Zhaoyan Meng, Xiangfei Duan, Libin Zhang
Summary: This study explores the relationship between destructive interparental conflict and adolescents' emotional and behavioral problems, as well as the mediating roles of parent-child attachment and emotional insecurity. The results show that destructive interparental conflict negatively affects parent-child attachment and emotional security, which in turn impacts emotional and behavioral problems among adolescents.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Thaisa Silva Gios, Judith Owens, Tatiana Pontrelli Mecca, Ricardo Riyoiti Uchida, Jose Ferreira Belisario Filho, Rosane Lowenthal
Summary: This study translated the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) into Brazilian Portuguese, culturally adapted it, and confirmed its validity and reliability. The CSHQ-BR showed satisfactory equivalence with the original English abbreviated form and proved to be a useful sleep screening instrument for identifying sleep problems in Brazilian children aged 4-10 years.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rikuya Hosokawa, Riho Tomozawa, Megumi Fujimoto, Sumire Anzai, Mai Sato, Haruko Tazoe, Toshiki Katsura
Summary: The study found that deterioration in sleep quality, sleep difficulties, daytime arousal difficulties, and sleep disturbances may increase the risk of behavioral problems in adolescents.
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Psychology, Developmental
Burt Hatch, Christine Wu Nordahl, A. J. Schwichtenberg, Sally Ozonoff, Meghan Miller
Summary: The study evaluated the factor structure and measurement invariance of CSHQ items in 2- to 4-year-olds with ASD and TD. Bifactor models revealed a general factor related to sleep initiation and nighttime awakenings. A factor composed of 7 items showed measurement invariance between ASD and TD.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates, Erin Roby, Caitlin F. Canfield, Matthew P. Johnson, Caroline L. Raak, Adriana Weisleder, Benard P. Dreyer, Alan L. Mendelsohn
Summary: Considerable evidence highlights the significance of the cognitive home environment in promoting children's language skills, cognitive abilities, and overall school readiness. This is especially critical for children from low-income families, as cognitive stimulation serves as a key protective factor against the detrimental effects of poverty on child development. To address the need for quantifying cognitive stimulation, researchers and clinicians have developed the StimQ(2), a cost-effective parent-report measure that eliminates outdated items, assesses various domains of cognitive stimulation, and offers new scoring systems. The findings indicate that the StimQ(2) is a reliable and valid tool for assessing the cognitive home environment from infancy to preschool age.
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Psychiatry
Ying Wang, Jingjing Lin, Ying Zeng, Yanan Liu, Yamin Li, Kun Xia, Jingping Zhao, Yidong Shen, Jianjun Ou
Summary: Children with ASD are more likely to experience sleep problems such as delayed sleep onset and increased night awakenings compared to typically developing children. Bed wetting and restlessness are specifically associated with the behavioral problems of children with ASD, highlighting the importance of addressing sleep disturbances in behavioral interventions for ASD.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Mohamad Hazni Abd Rahim, Mohd Ismail Ibrahim, Azriani Ab Rahman, Najib Majdi Yaacob, Nor Syuhada Farhanis Hashim
Summary: The rising prevalence of mental health disorders among children is a serious concern. The research aimed to identify emotional and behavioural problems and associated factors in Malaysian preschools. The overall estimated prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems was 8.4%, which is relatively low compared to previous studies and other Asian countries but consistent with European studies.
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Psychiatry
Martina M. Mensi, Chiara Rogantini, Livio Provenzi, Renato Borgatti
Summary: The study found that adolescent patients self-reported lower scores for behavioral problems compared to ratings by their mothers and fathers, which could be informative for clinical consultation and treatment.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2021)
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Sho-Ichi Kawakami, Azusa Ikegami, Yoko Komada
Summary: This study aimed to describe sleep problems and habits among Japanese women in different gestational stages. The results showed that pregnant women had poorer sleep quality in late pregnancy and the first week postpartum, with a higher risk of sleep-disordered breathing.
JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY RESEARCH
(2023)
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Psychology, Developmental
Francesca Lionetti, Daniel N. Klein, Massimiliano Pastore, Elaine N. Aron, Arthur Aron, Michael Pluess
Summary: Sensitive children may be at higher risk for developing depressive symptoms when exposed to permissive parenting, as rumination emerged as an important cognitive risk factor in this study.
EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
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Communication
Ughetta Moscardino, Sara Scrimin, Francesca Lionetti, Michael Pluess
Summary: This study explored the moderating effects of Environmental Sensitivity and cardiac vagal tone on the association between perceived family support and child well-being in low SES families. It found that highly sensitive children with higher resting CVT reported better well-being in poorly supportive family environments. Additionally, children reported high levels of well-being regardless of their levels of vagal activity or sensitivity in high supportive family environments.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
(2021)
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Psychology, Developmental
Ilaria Nicoli, Maria Spinelli, Francesca Lionetti, Maria Grazia Logrieco, Mirco Fasolo
Summary: This study found that the use of social networks had a negative impact on children's emotional difficulties but promoted well-being in adolescents. Solitary screen activities were associated with more behavioral problems in both children and adolescents. Parent-child dyadic activities were linked to less emotional difficulties and behavioral problems in children, and less behavioral problems in adolescents.
CHILD CARE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
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Psychology, Developmental
Francesca Lionetti, Maria Spinelli, Ughetta Moscardino, Silvia Ponzetti, Maria Concetta Garito, Antonio Dellagiulia, Tiziana Aureli, Mirco Fasolo, Michael Pluess
Summary: This study investigated the interplay of parenting and environmental sensitivity on children's behavioral adjustment during and after the COVID-19 lockdown. Results showed that parental stress and parent-child closeness had significant effects on children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors.
DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Experimental
Irene Ceccato, Pasquale La Malva, Adolfo Di Crosta, Rocco Palumbo, Matteo Gatti, Davide Momi, Maria Grazia Mada Logrieco, Mirco Fasolo, Nicola Mammarella, Erika Borella, Alberto Di Domenico
Summary: Through studying the intersection of emotions and memory, it was found that older adults exhibit a different pattern in temporal source memory tasks compared to younger adults, especially old-old adults tend to place negative pictures at a distant time.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2022)
Article
Immunology
Maria Grazia Mada Logrieco, Giuseppe Logrieco, Ilaria Nicoli, Francesca Pignatelli, Francesca Lionetti, Francesco Traglia, Maria Spinelli, Alberto Di Domenico, Mirco Fasolo
Summary: This study investigated the predictors of emotional states after vaccination among healthcare workers and found that risk perception, vaccine confidence, and information quantity were associated with a more positive emotional state, while age, education, confidence, information quantity, personality traits, and risk perception were associated with a more negative emotional state. Promotion of vaccination may benefit from a happy emotional status post-vaccination.
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Psychology, Developmental
Fabiola Silletti, Eliala A. Salvadori, Fabio Presaghi, Mirco Fasolo, Tiziana Aureli, Gabrielle Coppola
Summary: Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' tendency to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been found to be a significant predictor of developmental outcomes and can mitigate the effects of risk conditions. This study examines the developmental trajectories of MM across four time points (3, 6, 9, and 12 months) and the moderating effects of four variables (maternal sensitivity, age, education, and family income). The findings show that while MM is initially influenced by individual traits when infants' mental states are less understandable, it adapts to the increase in infants' sociocommunicative repertoire over time. The study also highlights the importance of ecological constraints on caregiving quality.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Alessandra Sperati, Maria Spinelli, Mirco Fasolo, Massimiliano Pastore, Michael Pluess, Francesca Lionetti
Summary: This study validated the parent-report version of the Highly Sensitive Child scale in Italian children and found that it captures children's environmental sensitivity and moderates the effects of parenting stress on children's emotion regulation.
DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Silvia Ponzetti, Maria Spinelli, Gabrielle Coppola, Francesca Lionetti, Giulio D'Urso, Prachi Shah, Mirco Fasolo, Tiziana Aureli
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the emergence of toddlers' regulatory strategies in aversive contexts. Forty-two toddlers were observed at 24 and 30 months of age using two paradigms designed to elicit fear and anger. Results showed that the type and level of control of strategies used in toddlerhood in managing negative emotions depend on emotion (e.g., fear versus anger) and age. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Psychology, Developmental
Fabia Franco, Chiara Suttora, Maria Spinelli, Iryna Kozar, Mirco Fasolo
Summary: The frequency of parent-infant singing interactions predicted infants' performance in music experiments at 6 months and mediated their language development in the second year. High levels of parental singing were associated with less pronounced preference for sung melodies at 6 months and significant advantages in language outcomes later.
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
(2022)
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Psychology, Developmental
Maria Spinelli, Tiziana Aureli, Gabrielle Coppola, Silvia Ponzetti, Francesca Lionetti, Valentina Scialpi, Mirco Fasolo
Summary: This study examines the consistency between verbal content and emotional expression in dismissing and secure individuals during the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). The findings suggest that secure individuals show a high coherence between verbal content and emotional expression, while dismissing individuals display a discrepancy between the two. Dismissing individuals downplay their negative experiences and emotions, but exhibit high emotional arousal.
ATTACHMENT & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Sofie Weyn, Karla Van Leeuwen, Michael Pluess, Francesca Lionetti, Luc Goossens, Guy Bosmans, Wim van den Noortgate, Dries Debeer, Anne Sophie Brohl, Patricia Bijttebier
Summary: The study introduced HSC-21, a new sensitivity scale with a more informative factor structure, and investigated its psychometric properties in 1,088 children across Belgium and the Netherlands. Results showed good reliability and measurement properties of HSC-21, but no evidence was found for its moderating role in the relationship between parenting and problem behaviors.
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Psychology, Developmental
Teresa Tillmann, Alex Bertrams, Katharina El Matany, Francesca Lionetti
Summary: The study found evidence for three identifiable sensitivity groups in adolescents, with a smaller low sensitivity group and larger medium and high sensitivity groups. Discussions were also made regarding measurements and cultural aspects.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
