TY - JOUR
T1 - The association between home chaos and academic achievement
T2 - The moderating role of sleep
AU - Berger, Rebecca H.
AU - Diaz, Anjolii
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Spinrad, Tracy L.
AU - Doane, Leah D.
AU - Thompson, Marilyn S.
AU - Hernández, Maciel M.
AU - Johns, Sarah K.
AU - Southworth, Jody
N1 - Funding Information: The results presented in this article were previously presented at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial conference in 2017. Research reported in this publication was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award R01HD068522, awarded to Carlos Valiente and Nancy Eisenberg. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors’ and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - The goal of this study was to understand the role young children's sleep plays in the association between their family environment and academic achievement (AA) by examining sleep as a moderator between home chaos (chaos) and children's AA. We examined this question in a sample of 103 kindergarteners and 1st graders. In the fall, parents reported on levels of chaos in their home. To measure sleep, early in the spring, children wore actigraphs for 5 consecutive school nights. Later in the spring, children completed standardized tests of achievement. Sleep duration, but not sleep efficiency, moderated relations between chaos and AA. Specifically, children with longer sleep durations (26% of the sample), compared to children with average or lower sleep durations, had significant negative associations between chaos and achievement, indicating that children in higher chaos homes had lower academic achievement. The findings enhance scholars' understanding of the relation between chaos and AA as well as highlight an important bioregulatory factor in the association between home family environment and children's academic outcomes.
AB - The goal of this study was to understand the role young children's sleep plays in the association between their family environment and academic achievement (AA) by examining sleep as a moderator between home chaos (chaos) and children's AA. We examined this question in a sample of 103 kindergarteners and 1st graders. In the fall, parents reported on levels of chaos in their home. To measure sleep, early in the spring, children wore actigraphs for 5 consecutive school nights. Later in the spring, children completed standardized tests of achievement. Sleep duration, but not sleep efficiency, moderated relations between chaos and AA. Specifically, children with longer sleep durations (26% of the sample), compared to children with average or lower sleep durations, had significant negative associations between chaos and achievement, indicating that children in higher chaos homes had lower academic achievement. The findings enhance scholars' understanding of the relation between chaos and AA as well as highlight an important bioregulatory factor in the association between home family environment and children's academic outcomes.
KW - Academic achievement
KW - Home chaos
KW - Home environment
KW - Sleep
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000535
DO - https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000535
M3 - Article
C2 - 31021127
SN - 0893-3200
VL - 33
SP - 975
EP - 981
JO - Journal of Family Psychology
JF - Journal of Family Psychology
IS - 8
ER -