Children's sleep: An interplay between culture and biology
Children's sleep: An interplay between culture and biology
复制标题
DOI：
10.1542/peds.2004-0815b
复制
发表时间：
2005-01-01
期刊：
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
O'Connor, BB
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Jenni, OG;O'Connor, BB
儿科医生为父母提供有关儿童行为和发展的主要知识来源，尽管他们的建议主要基于他们自己的文化价值观和信仰，并与他们的个人和临床经验相互作用。本文综述了工业化和复杂的现代社会中儿童睡眠行为的跨文化方面，并为理解文化差异的维度和机制提供了基础。我们认为，这是文化和生物学之间的相互作用，建立行为和发展的规范和期望有关正常和有问题的儿童的睡眠。儿科医生需要认识到儿童生活的文化环境，并了解家庭和医生的文化信仰和价值观如何与儿童个体的需求和生物学特征相互作用。
Pediatricians provide a major source of knowledge for parents about children's behavior and development, although their advice is largely based on their own cultural values and beliefs in interaction with their personal and clinical experience. This review presents cross-cultural aspects of children's sleep behavior in industrialized and complex modern societies and provides a basis for understanding dimensions and mechanisms of cultural differences. We submit that it is the interaction between culture and biology that establishes behavioral and developmental norms and expectations regarding normal and problematic children's sleep. Pediatricians need to recognize the cultural environment in which children live and be knowledgeable about how cultural beliefs and values of both families and physicians interact with the needs and biological characteristics of individual children.