Relationship Between Napping and Nocturnal Sleep in 4-year-old Children Attending Nursery School or Kindergarten
AUTHOR : 김진욱
INFORMATION : page. 1~20 / 2015 Vol.22 No.1
ABSTRACT
This study aimed at elucidating the relationship between napping pattern and nocturnal sleep in
4-year-old children attending nursery school or kindergarten. The data on sleeping pattern of
children, collected by the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2012 from 969 4-year-old
children (632 nursery school children, 337 kindergarteners), were analyzed. The main findings of
this study were as follows. The longer the nap durations in 4-year-old children were, the later they
went to bed, the less they slept at night, and the more the total sleep they had. Nursery school
children napped more than kindergartners. As a result of their long afternoon nap routine, nursery
school children went to bed later at night and had shorter nocturnal sleep compared to
kindergartners. However, the total sleep duration of nursery school children was longer than that of
kindergartners. These results provide foundation for finding ways to make young children’s nocturnal
sleep and their nap time in daycare work well together, and for establishing unified policies on
children’s nap routine in early education centers after the unification of nursery schools and
kindergartens.