Sleep hours and quality before and after baby: Inequalities by gender and partnership
Sleep hours and quality before and after baby: Inequalities by gender and partnership
While prior studies have examined sleep across the lifecourse, few studies have investigated sleep around the birth of a child, one of the most important events to cause sleep deprivation. This study investigates changes in sleep hours and quality, paying attention to differences by gender and partnership status. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we follow approximately 1,000 participants as they transition into parenthood in a three-year window.
We use OLS and logistic regression to analyze changes in sleep hours and sleep quality. Results suggest that women’s sleep is reduced by an average of 0.7 hours (42 minutes) on becoming a mother. Whilst before parenthood women sleep more than men, after childbirth women and men sleep similar amounts. Cohabiting men experience a greater reduction in sleep by around
0.5 hours (30 minutes) than married men, to the level similar to women, suggesting that new cohabiting fathers may experience more sleep disturbances.
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Chao, Shih-Yi
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Perelli-Harris, Brienna
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Berrington, Ann
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1 March 2023
Chao, Shih-Yi
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Perelli-Harris, Brienna
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Berrington, Ann
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Blom, Niels
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Chao, Shih-Yi, Perelli-Harris, Brienna, Berrington, Ann and Blom, Niels
(2023)
Sleep hours and quality before and after baby: Inequalities by gender and partnership.
Advances in Life Course Research, 55 (3), , [100518].
(doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100518).
Abstract
While prior studies have examined sleep across the lifecourse, few studies have investigated sleep around the birth of a child, one of the most important events to cause sleep deprivation. This study investigates changes in sleep hours and quality, paying attention to differences by gender and partnership status. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we follow approximately 1,000 participants as they transition into parenthood in a three-year window.
We use OLS and logistic regression to analyze changes in sleep hours and sleep quality. Results suggest that women’s sleep is reduced by an average of 0.7 hours (42 minutes) on becoming a mother. Whilst before parenthood women sleep more than men, after childbirth women and men sleep similar amounts. Cohabiting men experience a greater reduction in sleep by around
0.5 hours (30 minutes) than married men, to the level similar to women, suggesting that new cohabiting fathers may experience more sleep disturbances.
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 November 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 November 2022
Published date: 1 March 2023
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The authors would like to thank reviewers and the editor for their valuable comments. This research was funded by the ESRC Centre for Population Change grant number ES/R009139/1 .
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