ArticleClocks & sleep2020
Sleep Problems in School Aged Children: A Common Process across Internalising and Externalising Behaviours?
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- Relationship of Emotional Functioning in 9-12-Year-Old Schoolchildren with Key Lifestyles: Sleep Quality and Daily Physical Activity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sleep Disturbances and Cognition, Behavior, and Brain Structure in Children With mTBI.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- ADHD Symptoms and Sleep Problems During Middle Childhood: The Indirect Effect of Peer Victimization.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Sleep Disorders in Infants and Toddlers with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Treated with Therapeutic Hypothermia: A Case-Control Study Using the SDSC.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Agreement between parental reports and accelerometer measures of sleep duration in primary school children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The relationship between sleep difficulties and externalizing and internalizing problems in children and adolescents with mental illness.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- The role of inflammation in the prospective associations between early childhood sleep problems and ADHD at 10 years: findings from a UK birth cohort study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
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- Relationship between sleep disorders and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Associations of sleep and emotion regulation processes in childhood and adolescence - a systematic review, report of methodological challenges and future directions.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Review
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Abstract
Sleep problems are common in childhood and impact cognitive, psychological and physical wellbeing. The current study investigated the association between sleep problems and internalising and externalising behaviour in 114 school-aged children (5-12 years) from four primary schools in Melbourne, Australia. Data were collected using the Sleep Disorder Inventory for Students to measure sleep and the Conners Behavior Rating Scale to assess behaviour, both by parent report. Hierarchical regression analysis, controlling for socioeconomic status and age, identified moderate associations between sleep problems and emotional distress, aggressive behaviour and hyperactivity/impulsivity. Findings suggest screening for sleep problems in children presenting clinically with behavioural issues is a potentially important clinical practice. Additionally, results support the elaboration of transdiagnostic theory, whereby sleep problems are a common process in both internalising and externalising behaviour in children.
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