National Science Foundation Grants
Mona El-Sheikh (PI), Jacquelyn Mize (Co-PI) and Joseph A. Buckhalt (Co-PI). Socialization in the Family and Child Development: Emotionality, Regulation, and Sleep as Pathways and Moderators of Outcomes. National Science Foundation, Developmental Sciences, Award 0339115, 2004 to 2007 (Wave 1).
Mona El-Sheikh (PI) and Joseph A. Buckhalt (Co-PI). Children's Sleep and Development: The Role of Family Functioning, Cultural Context, and Body Mass Index. National Science Foundation, Developmental Sciences, Award 0623936, 2006 to 2008 (Wave 2).
Mona El-Sheikh (PI) and Joseph A. Buckhalt (Co-PI). Developmental Trajectories of Children's Sleep and Adjustment. National Science Foundation, Developmental Sciences, Award 0843185, 2009 to 2011 (Wave 3).
Empirical Articles
Wave 1 (2004)
El-Sheikh, M., & Arsiwalla, D. D. (2011). Children's sleep, skin conductance level and mental health. Journal of Sleep Research, 20(2), 326–337. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00880.x
Keller, P. S., El-Sheikh, M., & Buckhalt, J. A. (2008). Children's attachment to parents and their academic functioning: Sleep disruptions as moderators of effects. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 29(6), 441–449. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0b013e318182a9b4
Buckhalt, J. A., El-Sheikh, M., & Keller, P. (2007). Children's sleep and cognitive functioning: Race and socioeconomic status as moderators of effects. Child Development, 78(1), 213–231. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.00993.x
El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Keller, P. S., Cummings, E. M., & Acebo, C. (2007). Child emotional insecurity and academic achievement: The role of sleep disruptions. Journal of Family Psychology, 21(1), 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.21.1.29
El-Sheikh, M., Erath, S. A., & Keller, P. S. (2007). Children's sleep and adjustment: The moderating role of vagal regulation. Journal of Sleep Research, 16(4), 396–405. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2007.00618.x
El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Cummings, E. M., & Keller, P. (2007). Sleep disruptions and emotional insecurity are pathways of risk for children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01604.x
Wave 2 (2006)
Kouros, C. D., & El-Sheikh, M. (2015). Daily mood and sleep: Reciprocal relations and links with adjustment problems. Journal of Sleep Research, 24(1), 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12226
El-Sheikh, M., Hinnant, J. B., Kelly, R. J., & Erath, S. (2010). Maternal psychological control and child internalizing symptoms: Vulnerability and protective factors across bioregulatory and ecological domains. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(2), 188–198. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02140.x
Waves 1 and 2
Keller, P., & El-Sheikh, M. (2011). Children's emotional security and sleep: Longitudinal relations and directions of effects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(1), 64–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02263.x
Kelly, R. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2011). Marital conflict and children's sleep: Reciprocal relations and socioeconomic effects. Journal of Family Psychology, 25(3), 412–422. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023789
El-Sheikh, M., Kelly, R. J., Buckhalt, J. A., & Hinnant, J. B. (2010). Children's sleep and adjustment over time: The role of socioeconomic context. Child Development, 81(3), 870–883. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01439.x
Buckhalt, J. A., El-Sheikh, M., Keller, P. S., & Kelly, R. J. (2009). Concurrent and longitudinal relations between children's sleep and cognitive functioning: The moderating role of parent education. Child Development, 80(3), 875–892. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01303.x
Hinnant, J. B., & El-Sheikh, M. (2009). Children's externalizing and internalizing symptoms over time: The role of individual differences in patterns of RSA responding. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37(8), 1049–1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-009-9341-1
Keller, P. S., & El-Sheikh, M. (2009). Salivary alpha-amylase as a longitudinal predictor of children's externalizing symptoms: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator of effects. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34(5), 633–643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.12.016 (2003 pilot children)
Wave 3 (2009)
Tu, K. M., Marks, B. T., & El-Sheikh, M. (2017). Sleep and mental health: The moderating role of perceived adolescent-parent attachment. Sleep Health, 3(2), 90–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2016.12.003
Waves 1, 2 and 3
Kelly, R. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2014). Reciprocal relations between children's sleep and their adjustment over time. Developmental Psychology, 50(4), 1137–1147. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034501
Kelly, R. J., & El-Sheikh, M. (2013). Longitudinal relations between marital aggression and children's sleep: The role of emotional insecurity. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(2), 282–292. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031896
NSF data combined with other samples
Hinnant, J. B., & El-Sheikh, M. (2013). Codevelopment of externalizing and internalizing symptoms in middle to late childhood: Sex, baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity as predictors. Development and Psychopathology, 25(2), 419–436. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579412001150
El-Sheikh, M., & Hinnant, J. B. (2011). Marital conflict, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and allostatic load: Interrelations and associations with the development of children's externalizing behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 23(3), 815–829. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579411000320
El-Sheikh, M., Arsiwalla, D. D., Hinnant, J. B., & Erath, S. A. (2011). Children's internalizing symptoms: The role of interactions between cortisol and respiratory sinus arrhythmia. Physiology & Behavior, 103(2), 225–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.004
El-Sheikh, M., Kouros, C. D., Erath, S., Cummings, E. M., Keller, P., & Staton, L. (2009). Marital conflict and children's externalizing behavior: Interactions between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 74(1), vii, 1–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5834.2009.00501.x
2003 Pilot Sample
Keller, P. S., El-Sheikh, M., Granger, D. A., & Buckhalt, J. A. (2012). Interactions between salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase as predictors of children's cognitive functioning and academic performance. Physiology & Behavior, 105(4), 987–995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.11.005
El-Sheikh, M., Erath, S. A., Buckhalt, J. A., Granger, D. A., & Mize, J. (2008). Cortisol and children's adjustment: The moderating role of sympathetic nervous system activity. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36(4), 601–611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9204-6
El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Keller, P. S., & Granger, D. A. (2008). Children's objective and subjective sleep disruptions: Links with afternoon cortisol levels. Health Psychology, 27(1), 26–33. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.27.1.26
El-Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Granger, D. A., Erath, S. A., & Acebo, C. (2007). The association between children's sleep disruption and salivary interleukin-6. Journal of Sleep Research, 16(2), 188–197. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2007.00593.x
Conceptual Papers and Reviews
Buckhalt, J. A. (2011). Insufficient sleep and the socioeconomic status achievement gap. Child Development Perspectives, 5(1), 59–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2010.00151.x
Buckhalt, J. A. (2011). Children's sleep, sleepiness, and performance on cognitive tasks. WMF Press Bulletins, 2011(2), 1–12. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4180085/
El-Sheikh, M., & Erath, S. A. (2011). Family conflict, autonomic nervous system functioning, and child adaptation: State of the science and future directions. Development and Psychopathology, 23(2), 703–721. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579411000034
Buckhalt, J. A., Wolfson, A. R., & El-Sheikh, M. (2009). Children's sleep and school psychology practice. School Psychology Quarterly, 24(1), 60–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014497
Buckhalt, J. A., El-Sheikh, M., Holthaus, C., Baker, S., & Wolfson, A. (2007). Sleep and school performance: What teachers and parents can do. NASP Communiqué, 35, 2–3.
Buckhalt, J. A., Wolfson, A., & El-Sheikh, M. (2007). Children's sleep, academic performance, and school behavior. NASP Communiqué, 35, 40–43.
Dahl, R. E., & El-Sheikh, M. (2007). Considering sleep in a family context: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Family Psychology, 21(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1037/0893-3200.21.1.1
Book Chapters
El-Sheikh, M., Kelly, R. J., & Philbrook, L. E. (2017). Sleep and development: Familial and socio-cultural considerations. In S. M. McHale, V. King, & O. M. Buxton (Eds.), Family contexts of sleep and health across the life course (pp. 25–49). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64780-7_2
Buckhalt, J. A. (2013). The role of schools in identification, treatment, and prevention of children's sleep problems. In A. R. Wolfson & H. E. Montgomery-Downs (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of infant, child, and adolescent sleep and behavior (pp. 292–301). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199873630.013.0019
Keller, P. S., Buckhalt, J. A., & El-Sheikh, M. (2008). Links between family functioning and children's sleep. In A. Ivanenko (Ed.), Sleep and psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents (pp. 49–59). Informa Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.3109/9781420048087-9
