Purpose and Hypotheses of the Study The study by Ng, Dodd, Gamble, and Hudson (2013) had three main purposes. The prime goal of the research was to analyze the nature and correlates of children’s dysfunctional beliefs about sleep. The first objective was to reproduce and lengthen the finding that child dysfunctional beliefs are positively correlated with the Childs sleep related problems (SRP). The second objective was to examine whether parent dysfunctional beliefs about their child’s sleep are related with child SRP’s; a significant positive relationship was hypothesized in which more dysfunctional beliefs are associated with more SRP’s. The final objective was to examine whether there is a correlation between parent and child dysfunctional
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Their parents were also included in the study. The initial recruitment of the participants was when the children were at age 4, via advertisements in a free parenting brochure and through local preschools. The recruitment initially required that mothers complete the short temperament scale for children, the children who scored higher than 1 SD above or below the standardizing mean on the Approach Scale were selected. Of the selected, these children were categorized as behaviorally uninhibited (N=17) or behaviorally inhibited (N=28). At the time the study was conducted the standard deviation and sample mean on the Behavioral Inhibition Scale was consistent with public norms (M=9, SD=2.6). Suggesting that the sample was representative of the general population at the time of the research study. Participants were primarily Australian/Oceanic at 75.6%, European 15.6% and Asian at 8.9%. The majority of the participants came from higher income homes at 66.7% roughly reporting a gross income of AU$80,000.
Methods and Procedures Children's dysfunctional beliefs were measured using a revised version of the DBAS child scale, DBAS-10, the ten items that make up the scale were all statements about sleep related beliefs, rated on a 5 point Likert scale (1-5, strongly disagree, strongly agree)
Results and
Their parents were also included in the study. The initial recruitment of the participants was when the children were at age 4, via advertisements in a free parenting brochure and through local preschools. The recruitment initially required that mothers complete the short temperament scale for children, the children who scored higher than 1 SD above or below the standardizing mean on the Approach Scale were selected. Of the selected, these children were categorized as behaviorally uninhibited (N=17) or behaviorally inhibited (N=28). At the time the study was conducted the standard deviation and sample mean on the Behavioral Inhibition Scale was consistent with public norms (M=9, SD=2.6). Suggesting that the sample was representative of the general population at the time of the research study. Participants were primarily Australian/Oceanic at 75.6%, European 15.6% and Asian at 8.9%. The majority of the participants came from higher income homes at 66.7% roughly reporting a gross income of AU$80,000.
Methods and Procedures Children's dysfunctional beliefs were measured using a revised version of the DBAS child scale, DBAS-10, the ten items that make up the scale were all statements about sleep related beliefs, rated on a 5 point Likert scale (1-5, strongly disagree, strongly agree)
Results and