Associations between family relationship and children's sleep

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2022-1187

Abstract

Abstract: Family relationship is one of environmental factors associated with children's sleep.This review combs related studies focused on the relation between family relationship and child sleep in recent ten years via searching CNKI, PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCOhost and Springer Link.It is found that good marital relationship of parents, good parent-child relationship, emotional security and secure attachment in marital and parent-child relationship have benefits on child sleep.Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and parasympathetic nervous system might be involved in family relationship-child sleep link.Further studies are warranted on interventions for poor family relationship in order to improve children's sleep.

Key words: children, sleep, family relationship, parent-child relationship, marital relationship

摘要： 家庭关系是环境因素中与儿童青少年睡眠有关的因素之一。本研究搜索了中国知网、PubMed、Web of Science、EBSCOhost和Springer Link这些数据库内近10年探讨过家庭关系与儿童睡眠之间关系的研究,结果发现:父母间良好的婚姻关系、良好的亲子关系、夫妻间与亲子间的安全感与安全依恋对儿童睡眠有益,家庭关系可能通过下丘脑-垂体-肾上腺轴(HPA轴)及副交感神经系统的生物学变化来影响儿童睡眠。但国内外仍需更多针对不良家庭关系来改善儿童睡眠的临床研究。

关键词: 儿童, 睡眠, 家庭关系, 亲子关系, 婚姻关系

CLC Number:

R179

WANG Ziyang, HU Lei, LIU Jintong. Associations between family relationship and children's sleep[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care, 2023, 31(6): 640-644.

王子阳, 胡蕾, 刘金同. 家庭关系与儿童睡眠的关系及其潜在机制[J]. 中国儿童保健杂志, 2023, 31(6): 640-644.

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