Figure 1.
Examination of children’s sleep at T2 as an intervening process in the association between parent-child conflict at T1 and children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms at T3. Model Fit: χ2(82) = 166.85, p < .001; χ2/df = 2.03; CFI = .96; RMSEA = .06ns, 95% CI [.04 to .07]. Residual variances among the sleep variables were allowed to correlate as were the residual variances among internalizing and externalizing symptoms. For ease of interpretation, statistically significant lines are solid and non-significant lines are dotted. For autoregressive effects, sleep minutes, sleep efficiency, and long wake episodes at T1 were controlled as were internalizing and externalizing symptoms at T2. Additional covariates were child sex, ethnicity, SES at T2, single mother status at T1 and verbal and physical inter-partner conflict at T2.
*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001