title: Agreement with night-waking strategies among community mothers of preschool-aged children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the night-waking schemas of mothers of preschool-aged children, using a new measure of agreement with night-waking strategies (Night-waking Vignettes Scale; NVS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A community sample of 203 mothers (M age = 32 years, SD = 5.1) of 2- to 5-year-olds (M age = 3.4 years, SD = 1.0) provided demographic information and completed the NVS and measures of night-waking and general parenting behavior.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Few mothers endorsed strong agreement or disagreement with limit-setting, active comforting, or rewards; mothers generally disagreed with punishment. Significant associations between agreement with night-waking strategies, child sex, and maternal educational attainment were observed; only agreement with punishment was correlated with general parenting. Agreement with night-waking strategies differed across the night-waking behaviors depicted in the NVS vignettes. Agreement with limit-setting and agreement with active comforting were correlated with night-waking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mothers may be ambivalent about common night-waking strategies. Night-waking schemas appear to be complex.
authors.affiliation: The University of Western Ontario, Canada. aimee.coulombe@dal.ca
authors.forename: J Aimée
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Coulombe
authors.forename: Graham J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Reid
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires