Hi everyone! The topic of your study is incredibly interesting! I have always had an interest in learning more about sleep and dreams and since I am going to be an elementary school teacher, developmental psych is also very interesting to me. I’ve never heard of the term “sleep hygiene” and I’ve never really thought of how parenting experienced in childhood can influence sleep patterns as an adult! Parenting really has a lasting influence on so many factors in a child. Your hypothesis makes so much sense and even though your results weren’t significant, it does imply the scope and high influence parenting has on a child, as well as it’s long term effects. It would be super interesting to see a long-term study like this that examines how parenting influences a child’s sleep patterns and sleep hygiene as they develop over the years: if it changes or remains consistent, and what kind of parenting interventions may help benefit the child’s quality of sleep. Great job!

Interesting project! Sleep is definitely a key topic to explore in the college environment.

You mentioned that you had uneven groups for the different parenting styles. What were the different group sizes?

Also, in your graph, you have a “no group” bar. Are these participants who experienced parenting style not readily classified into the core 3 categories? If so, did you consider doing your analyses with these participants removed so they weren’t muddying your analyses?

You mentioned low power as a limitation of your study, so I wanted to ask two follow-up questions about that.
1. How many people were in your sample and how low was power? Your F values were less than 1, so that is probably more consistent with a null finding than a trend toward significance.
2. Another thought I had was about the PAQ. If I remember correctly, I think it gives each parent a score on each parenting style (rather than putting them into nominal groups). If so, then you could re-analyze your data as two multiple regressions with the 3 parenting styles (used in interval/ratio form) as predictors of the sleep outcomes separately. You have a lot more power using the variables in a continuous rather than categorical fashion.
Just a few thoughts. Great job on the poster and the talk!

Hi guys! I thought your topic was incredibly interesting. I think sleep is a topic that needs to be talked about and researched more because many adults have some type of sleep disorder. I have insomnia, and I knew that I got it from my parents, but not like this. It’s fascinating how parents have such an influence on their child, even in adulthood. I also believe that sleep doctors play a part in this because doctors always seem to rattle off the same comments when discussing that you aren’t sleeping. “Don’t use screens, calm down, relax…” instead of trying to understand the child’s home life. I believe that this topic needs to have more research done to understand our parents’ effect on us genuinely. Overall, I loved your project, and your topic was very fascinating. Great job!

I thought this was a really interesting topic and a great idea! I think that it is interesting how the parenting styles we are exposed to can affect our lives later on. I am sorry that you didn’t have significant results. I wonder if branching outside of college students would give you a better set of data. It seems that on sleep hygiene and sleep quality the different parenting types all fell around the same mean. I wonder if it is because the age of your participants.

Hello! I thought that this topic was an awesome idea and I find it so interesting that you had one independent variable and two dependent variable. I was wondering, why did you choose to do two dependent variables rather than two independent variables? Since you didn’t get any significant results, maybe you could try a different dependent variable, like mental health or relationships as adults (and you could broaden your participant age range to have more participants and higher power). One last final question I was wondering was what do you mean by uneven sample sizes for parenting styles in your limitation section? I love the aesthetic of your poster, you guys did a great job!!!

Hi! This study was so interesting to read about. I wonder if you would have been able to obtain more significant or different results based on the types of questions asked in the survey, however, it totally makes sense that the uneven sample sizes had a large effect on the results. In the future it would be interesting to see the differences in results based on the types of questions asked.

Very interesting experiment! I was honestly surprised that you were unable to find an interaction between these variables. They seem to go hand-in-hand!

I do have a question about particular parenting styles. What do you think gives an authoritative parenting style a slight advantage when it comes to sleep hygiene? Do you think authoritative parenting should be advocated for when it comes to children having healthy sleep schedules or not? Also, I was wondering about the behavioral side of this. Do you believe that sleeping behaviors can be learned and imitated simply by the child observing the sleeping behavior of the parent(s)?

I think the study was very interesting. I agree that maybe having more data from all parenting styles might result in different findings. I know for myself I made a nightly routine for myself and that helped me get better sleep. It makes sense that a good routine will help children.

I enjoyed reading through your poster, sleep quality and hygiene and parenting styles are not two factors I have thought about often but I can see how your hypothesis makes sense. I also would have predicted the same thing! I wonder if changing the independent variable would result in a significant predictor of sleep quality and hygiene. For example, measuring phone use before bed, hours spent on the phone during the day, etc could be more sensitive to your study and more recent for participants to look back on rather than childhood memories of their parents parenting style.