Sleepless : The Developmental Significance of Sleep Quality and Quantity Among Adolescents
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Developmental psychology |
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| Web | https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdev0001192 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001192 |
| Keywords | internalizing; externalizing; bullying; depression; grades |
| Description | The current study tested the developmental significance of both early adolescent sleep quantity and quality for academic competence and internalizing and externalizing problems over the course of 2 years. As part of an accelerated longitudinal study, data were collected from N = 586 Czech adolescents (M-age = 12.34 years, SD =.89, 58.4% female). Data analyses included a series of logistic regressions that controlled for adolescent sex, age, family structure, and socioeconomic status. Findings showed that sleep quality at Wave 1 predicted developmental changes 1 year later (Wave 3) in depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem (ORrange = 1.7-1.8) and 2 years later (Wave 5) in externalizing behaviors (OR = 2.6). Importantly, despite the associations observed with Wave 3 anxiety and deviance, Wave 1 sleep quantity was unrelated to subsequent developmental changes in adjustment measures, both 1 and 2 years later. No sleep effects at all were observed on a variety of measures of academic competence. Study findings underscore the developmental significance of sleep and indicate greater salience of sleep quality vis-a-vis sleep quantity. They also replicate some of the observed relationships found in previous longitudinal work on the sleep-mood link but extend the sleep-adolescent adjustment literature in a number of important ways. |