Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years
BackgroundParents’ parenting beliefs have a major influence on their children’s eating and sleeping problems and emotional socialization. However, the relationship between parent’s concerns about eating or sleeping problems and social-emotional development is unclear.MethodsWe used a convenience sam...
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| description | BackgroundParents’ parenting beliefs have a major influence on their children’s eating and sleeping problems and emotional socialization. However, the relationship between parent’s concerns about eating or sleeping problems and social-emotional development is unclear.MethodsWe used a convenience sampling method to investigate 997 parents of preschool children aged 3 to 6 in Hangzhou, China, and asked them to complete the “Ages & Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional (2nd Edition)” (ASQ: SE-2) and the Survey of Concerns about Children’s Eating and Sleeping Problems. To examine the relationship between children’s social-emotional development and their parents’ concerns about their eating or sleeping problems, binary logistic regression was used.ResultsThere were 218 children (21.9%) with a suspected social-emotional development delay, and 273 parents (27.4%) were concerned about their children’s eating or sleeping problems, which mainly focused on ill-balanced eating, bad eating habits, and difficulty falling asleep. The rate of suspected social-emotional development delay in children with the co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems (37.8%) was significantly higher than those with only eating problems (29.7%), only sleeping problems (24.4%), and those with no eating or sleeping problems (18.8%) (p < 0.05). A binary logistic regression analysis showed that parents’ concerns about the co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems (OR = 2.52, p = 0.01) and only eating problems (OR = 1.71, p = 0.004) were risk factors for children’s social-emotional development. In addition, boys were more likely than girls to have suspected social-emotional development delay (OR = 1.49, p = 0.01).ConclusionChildren whose parents were concerned about only eating or the co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems were linked to have a higher risk of suspected social-emotional development delay. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-69cb9fc0d77d45098d5f45d839458e732023-11-16T18:10:29ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-11-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.12642191264219Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 yearsTongxi Hu0Shaoying Liu1Jianying Zhan2Luxin Xu3Yanqing Zhou4Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Child Health Care, Hangzhou Women’s Hospital, Hangzhou, ChinaHangzhou Qiantang Lingyun Kindergarten, Hangzhou, ChinaHangzhou Qiantang Xinghua Kindergarten, Hangzhou, ChinaBackgroundParents’ parenting beliefs have a major influence on their children’s eating and sleeping problems and emotional socialization. However, the relationship between parent’s concerns about eating or sleeping problems and social-emotional development is unclear.MethodsWe used a convenience sampling method to investigate 997 parents of preschool children aged 3 to 6 in Hangzhou, China, and asked them to complete the “Ages & Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional (2nd Edition)” (ASQ: SE-2) and the Survey of Concerns about Children’s Eating and Sleeping Problems. To examine the relationship between children’s social-emotional development and their parents’ concerns about their eating or sleeping problems, binary logistic regression was used.ResultsThere were 218 children (21.9%) with a suspected social-emotional development delay, and 273 parents (27.4%) were concerned about their children’s eating or sleeping problems, which mainly focused on ill-balanced eating, bad eating habits, and difficulty falling asleep. The rate of suspected social-emotional development delay in children with the co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems (37.8%) was significantly higher than those with only eating problems (29.7%), only sleeping problems (24.4%), and those with no eating or sleeping problems (18.8%) (p < 0.05). A binary logistic regression analysis showed that parents’ concerns about the co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems (OR = 2.52, p = 0.01) and only eating problems (OR = 1.71, p = 0.004) were risk factors for children’s social-emotional development. In addition, boys were more likely than girls to have suspected social-emotional development delay (OR = 1.49, p = 0.01).ConclusionChildren whose parents were concerned about only eating or the co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems were linked to have a higher risk of suspected social-emotional development delay.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1264219/fullpreschool childrenparental concerneating problemsleeping problemsocial-emotional development |
| spellingShingle | Tongxi Hu Shaoying Liu Jianying Zhan Luxin Xu Yanqing Zhou Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years Frontiers in Public Health preschool children parental concern eating problem sleeping problem social-emotional development |
| title | Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years |
| title_full | Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years |
| title_fullStr | Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years |
| title_short | Association between parents’ concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social-emotional development in Chinese children aged 3 to 6 years |
| title_sort | association between parents concerns about eating and sleeping problems and social emotional development in chinese children aged 3 to 6 years |
| topic | preschool children parental concern eating problem sleeping problem social-emotional development |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1264219/full |
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