The role of household chaos as a mediator in the relationship between family resources and child sleep outcomes during the kindergarten transition was investigated in this study.
Family resources were found to be a better predictor of child sleep outcomes than household income. Household chaos mediated the link between family resources and child sleep duration in early and mid-kindergarten, the link between family resources and the proportion of recommended sleep duration in mid-kindergarten, and the change in proportion of recommended sleep from pre-kindergarten to early-kindergarten when quality of coparenting and maternal depressive symptoms were controlled for.
The findings indicate that household chaos is a mechanism through which family resources, a metric of socioeconomic risk, affect child sleep during the kindergarten transition.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352721821002205?via%3Dihub