1. Adolescents’ sleep and adjustment: Reciprocal effects
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Mona El-Sheikh, Megan M. Zeringue, and Ryan J. Kelly
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Male ,Sleep Wake Disorders ,African american ,Sleepiness ,Adolescent ,Actigraphy ,Anxiety ,Sleep in non-human animals ,Article ,Education ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,Female ,Self Report ,medicine.symptom ,Sleep ,Psychology ,Reciprocal ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology ,Sleep duration - Abstract
Reciprocal relations between sleep and adjustment were investigated. Participants included 246 adolescents (M = 15.80 years; 67.5% White, 32.5% Black/African American; 53% female, 47% male) at Time 1 (data collected 2012–2013), 227 at Time 2 (M = 16.78 years) and 215 at Time 3 (M = 17.70 years). Sleep-wake variables were measured with self-reports (sleepiness) and actigraphy (average sleep minutes and efficiency, variability in sleep minutes and efficiency). Adolescents reported on depression and anxiety symptoms, and parents reported on externalizing problems. Greater variability in sleep duration and efficiency as well as sleepiness predicted adjustment problems (range of R(2): 36%−60%). Reciprocal relations were supported mostly for sleepiness (range of R(2): 16%−32%). Results help understand bidirectional relations between sleep and adjustment.
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- 2021