Sleep across early childhood: implications for internalizing and externalizing problems, socioemotional skills, and cognitive and academic abilities in preschool

Hoyniak, Caroline P.; Bates, John E.; McQuillan, Maureen E.; Staples, Angela D.; Petersen, Isaac T.; Rudasill, Kathleen M.; Molfese, Victoria J.

doi:10.1111/jcpp.13225

Sleep across early childhood: implications for internalizing and externalizing problems, socioemotional skills, and cognitive and academic abilities in preschool

Background Sleep is thought to be important for behavioral and cognitive development. However, much of the prior research on sleep's role in behavioral/cognitive development has relied upon self‐report measures and cross‐sectional designs. Methods The current study examined how early childhood sl…