There is a need to better understand the influence of daytime parenting behaviors on children’s sleep. We investigated relations between maternal harsh parenting and young children’s sleep and consistent with health disparities and cumulative risk perspectives, socioeconomic status was considered as a moderator of these associations. Participants were 172 mothers of children between the ages of 2 and 5 years (mean age of children was 3.30 years) from diverse ethnic (47% of children were White/European American, 24% were Hispanic/Latino, 29% reported other ethnicities) and socioeconomic backgrounds. Mothers reported on children’s sleep/wake problems (insufficient sleep duration, night wakings, daytime sleepiness) and their own harsh parenting behaviors. After controlling for several covariates, more maternal harsh parenting was related to greater daytime sleepiness among children. Associations between maternal harsh parenting and insufficient sleep duration and night wakings were significant for children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Results add to the growing literature that has considered children’s sleep in the family context and highlight the importance of contemporaneous considerations of the parenting and socioeconomic contexts.

有必要更好地了解白天父母行为对孩子睡眠的影响。我们调查了母亲苛刻的父母与幼儿睡眠之间的关系，并根据健康差异和累积风险观点进行了调查，社会经济地位被认为是这些协会的主持人。参加调查的是来自不同种族的172岁的2至5岁儿童的母亲（儿童的平均年龄为3.30岁）（47％的儿童是白人/欧洲裔美国人，24％是西班牙裔/拉丁美洲人，29％的人报告了其他种族）和社会经济背景。母亲报告了孩子的睡眠/觉醒问题（睡眠时间不足，晚上醒来，白天嗜睡）以及他们自己的苛刻养育行为。在控制了几个协变量之后，产妇苛刻的父母养育更多与儿童白天的嗜睡有关。对于来自较低社会经济背景的儿童，母亲苛刻的父母教养与睡眠时间不足和夜间醒来之间的关联非常重要。结果增加了在家庭背景下考虑儿童睡眠的文献，并突显了同时考虑育儿和社会经济背景的重要性。