The sleep of the child – the parent's stressor? A study within the ABIS project

................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5 Foreword ............................................................................................................ 7 Diabetes.............................................................................................................. 9 Stress ................................................................................................................ 12 The concept .................................................................................................. 12 Allostasis and allostatic load..................................................................... 13 Basic endocrinology of stress response; implications for allostatic load . 14 Psychological appraisal............................................................................. 16 Evolutional implications of psychological appraisal for allostatic load... 18 Balancing environmental and mental ....................................................... 19 Measuring psychological stress.................................................................... 20 The situation.............................................................................................. 21 The response ............................................................................................. 21 The duration .............................................................................................. 22 Operationalising it..................................................................................... 22 Stress in the ABIS study............................................................................... 23 Measures ................................................................................................... 23 Associations to other measures................................................................. 24 Attachment theory............................................................................................ 25 Sleep................................................................................................................. 27 Aims ................................................................................................................. 28 Hypotheses ....................................................................................................... 29 Methods ............................................................................................................... 33 Procedure ......................................................................................................... 35 Participants....................................................................................................... 35 Measures .......................................................................................................... 36 Central measures .......................................................................................... 36 Sleep measures.......................................................................................... 36 Stress measures ......................................................................................... 37 Peripheral measures...................................................................................... 39 Child temperament.................................................................................... 39 Social support dissatisfaction.................................................................... 39 Both parents born outside of Sweden ....................................................... 40 Single parenthood ..................................................................................... 40 First child .................................................................................................. 40 Parental education ..................................................................................... 40 Parental age at birth of child ..................................................................... 40 Night feedings ........................................................................................... 41 Ethical considerations ...................................................................................... 41 Statistical analyses ........................................................................................... 42 Results ................................................................................................................. 43 Associations ..................................................................................................... 45