University of Rijeka

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of English Language and Literature

Sanja egulja

Seminar paper:
Teti receives grant to study infant sleep, coparenting, and
infant development

Professor: Nikola Tutek

September, 2017
Teti receives grant to study infant sleep, coparenting, and
infant development
July 13, 2017

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Douglas M. Teti, professor of human development and family
students, psychology, and pediatrics at Penn State, has received a five-year, $3 million grant
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his study, Coparenting, Infant Sleep and
Infant Development." This project is one of three federally funded projects in Tetis SIESTA
research program, a program that has evolved from a small pilot project funded by Penn
States Social Science Research Institute in 2005.

Teti, who is also head of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, will
evaluate the effects of an adaptation of Family Foundations, a coparenting intervention
program for expectant parents that helps foster attitudes and skills related to positive family
relationships.

In one arm of the study, families will experience Family Foundations as originally
formulated. In the second, families will receive an adapted version that emphasizes
coparenting in infant sleep contexts. The third arm will serve as controls.

Although sleep regulation across the first year proceeds well for many infants, for other
infants that is not the case, and estimates of sleep problems among infants and preschoolers
range between 25 and 33 percent, said Teti.

Dysregulated infant sleep is predictive of poor parent sleep, and chronic sleep disruption can
place families in turmoil, with consequences for the marital and coparenting relationship.

Furthermore, mothers reporting early coparenting distress are at risk for personal distress and
poor bedtime and nighttime parenting, which in turn predicts infant sleep problems and
insecure infant attachment, Teti said.

The rationale for this study is twofold. First, recent findings indicate that poor coparenting at
one month postpartum predicts persistent infant-parent co-sleeping across the first year,
elevated maternal depressive symptoms, emotionally unavailable bedtime parenting, and
insecure infant-mother attachments, he added.

Secondly, while Family Foundations as originally developed has been successful in

improving coparenting, marital adjustment and overall parenting quality, it gives little
specific attention to coparenting in infant sleep contexts, which findings from Tetis "Study
of Infants Emergent Sleep TrAjectories" (SIESTA) identify as critical to parent and infant
outcomes in the first year.

Assessments of coparenting and parenting in infant sleep contexts; parental adjustment to

infant sleep behavior; choices about sleep arrangements; infant and parent sleep quality; and
infant socio-emotional functioning will serve as outcomes.

Project SIESTA is a longitudinal study of links between infant sleep quality during the first
two years and infant socioemotional development; how parenting of infants at bedtime and
night time affects the development of infant sleep quality over time; and the intersection of
parenting practices, parenting quality, and infant sleep in predicting infant developmental
outcomes and stress reactivity across the first two years of life.

Project SIESTA, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health, also examines how
parental behavior at bedtime and night time predicts infant functioning during the day.

The grant was provided by the NICHD under award 1R01HD088566-01A1. Funding for
other projects in the SIESTA Research Program were provided by awards 5R01HD087266
and 5R01HD052809.
Teti dobiva stipendiju za prouavanje djejeg sna,
suroditeljstva i djejeg razvoja
13. srpnja 2017.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (Pensilvanija) - Douglas M. Teti, profesor na studijima ljudskog

razvoja i obitelji, profesor psihologije i profesor pedagogije na sveuilitu Penn State, je
dobio za svoje istraivanje Suroditeljstvo, djeji san i djeji razvoj petogodinju stipendiju
od 3 milijuna dolara od Nacionalnih instituta za zdravlje [National Institutes of Health
(NIH)]. Taj je projekt jedan od tri projekta Tetijevog istraivalakog programa SIESTA
financiranih od drave, programa koji je evoluirao iz malog pilot projekta financiranog od
Penn Stateovog Instituta za istraivanja drutvenih znanosti (Social Science Research
Institute) 2005. godine.

Teti, koji je takoer proelnik Odsjeka za prouavanje ljudskog razvoja i obitelji, procjenjivat
e uinke adaptacije Obiteljskih temelja, interventnog programa za suroditeljstvo roditelja
koji oekuju dijete, koji pomae njegovati stavove i vjetine povezane s pozitivnim
obiteljskim odnosima.

U jednoj grani studije, obitelji e iskusiti prvotni oblik Obiteljskih temelja. U drugoj, obitelji
e primiti prilagoenu verziju, koja naglaava suroditeljstvo u kontekstima djejeg sna. Trea
grana e sluiti kao kontrola.

Iako regulacija sna tijekom prve godine kod mnogo djece dobro napreduje, kod druge djece
to nije sluaj, i procjene problema sa snom meu djecom i predkolcima se kreu izmeu 25 i
33 posto, rekao je Teti.

Nereguliran djeji san predskazuje manjak sna roditelja, a kronini poremeaj sna moe
uzrokovati nemir u obitelji, sa posljedicama za brani i suroditeljski odnos.

tovie, za majke koje se ale na ranu suroditeljsku iscrpljenost postoji rizik osobne
iscrpljenosti i loeg roditeljstva u vrijeme za spavanje i nou, to zauzvrat predskazuje djeje
probleme sa snom i nesigurnu djeju privrenost, rekao je Teti.

Razlog za ovu studiju je dvostruk. Prvo, nedavna otkria ukazuju na to da loe suroditeljstvo
jedan mjesec poslije poroda predskazuje trajno zajedniko spavanje djece i roditelja (co-
sleeping) tijekom prve godine, pojaane simptome majine depresije, emocionalnu
nedostupnost roditeljstva u vrijeme za spavanje i nesigurne privrenosti dijete-majka, dodao
je.

Drugo, dok su prvotno razvijeni Obiteljski temelji bili uspjeni u poboljavanju

suroditeljstva, brane prilagodbe i ukupne kvalitete roditeljstva, ne daju dovoljno specifine
panje suroditeljstvu u kontekstima djejeg sna, koje otkria Tetijeve Studije djejih vanih
putanja sna (SIESTA) identificira kao kritino za roditeljske i djeje ishode u prvoj godini.
Procjene suroditeljstva i roditeljstva u kontekstima djejeg sna; privikavanje roditelja na
funkcioniranje djejeg sna; izbori u vezi rasporeda spavanja; djeja i roditeljska kvaliteta sna;
i djeje socio-emocionalno funkcioniranje e sluiti kao ishodi.

Projekt SIESTA je longitudinalna studija veza izmeu kvalitete djejeg sna tijekom prve
dvije godine i djejeg socioemocionalni razvoj; kako roditeljstvo djece u vrijeme spavanja i
nou utjeu na razvoj kvalitete djejeg sna tijekom vremena; i ukrtanje roditeljskih praksa,
kvalitete roditeljstva i djejeg sna u predvianju djejih razvojnih ishoda i reakcija na stres
tijekom prve dvije godine ivota.

Projekt SIESTA, financiran od Nacionalnog instituta djejeg zdravlja i razvoja ovjeka

Eunice Kennedy Shriver [Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD)] Dravnih zdravstvenih instituta, takoer ispituje kako
ponaanje roditelja u vrijeme za spavanje i nou predskazuje djeje funkcioniranje tijekom
dana.

Stipendija je osigurana od NICHD pod odlukom 1R01HD088566-01A1.

Financiranje ostalih projekata u Istraivakom programu SIESTA osigurano je odlukama

5R01HD087266 i 5R01HD052809.
Workflow

Source: Penn State

http://news.psu.edu/story/474525/2017/07/13/research/teti-receives-grant-study-infant-sleep-
coparenting-and-infant

Genre: a scientific article

Audience: broader. It contains some terms from psychology and pediatrics, but they are not
too difficult to understand.

- professor of human development and family studies, psychology, and pediatrics at Penn
State because that is not the name of a single course, but three different ones, in the
translation I used the word professor in front of each course

- I changed the word order so it sounds more natural first the name of a study than the grant

- can place families in turmoil in our language, someone cannot be placed in turmoil, so I
decided to translate uzrokovati nemir u obitelji

- mothers reporting early coparenting distress are at risk it is natural to say in Croatian: za
majke koje se ale na ranu suroditeljsku iscrpljenost postoji rizik

- poor parenting loe roditeljstvo; parenting cannot be weak, and oskudno is not appropriate

- co-sleeping the technical term needed to be explained

- Study of Infants' emergent sleep trajectories sleep problems always existed, they did not
just emerge from the study; it's more accurate to translate the word emergent with the word
important
Glossary

- infant (adj.) djeje, djetinji

- coparenting (n.) suroditeljstvo

- well (adv.) dobro, uredno, ispravno, pravilno

- predicts (v.) predskazuje, predvia

- reports (v.) ali se, tuiti se

- range (v.) kreu se

- rationale (n.) razlog, logiki temelj

- co-sleeping (n.) zajedniko spavanje djece i roditelja

- emergent (adj.) vaan, hitan

- trajectories (n.) putanje, putevi

- award (n.) - odluka