Sleep Habits and Nighttime Texting Among Adolescents

Garmy, Pernilla; Ward, Teresa M.

doi:10.1177/1059840517704964

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“…The adolescents described their technology use as having to be connected around the clock, making it difficult to stop technology use. Technology use was a common reason for sleeping difficulties in this study which is in line with research by Hale and Guan and Garmy and Ward , which determined the links between technology use and sleeping difficulties in the form of delayed timing and shortened sleep duration. Perhaps the adolescents’ technology use in this study was also present in the categories of stress, poor sleep habits and existential thoughts, even though the adolescents did not express this.…”

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Reasons for sleeping difficulties as perceived by adolescents: a content analysis

Jakobsson

Josefsson

Högberg

2019

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Sleeping difficulties are increasingly prevalent among adolescents worldwide and have negative consequences for adolescent health and education. The aim of this study was to describe the reasons for sleeping difficulties as perceived by adolescents. Sleeping difficulties include insufficient sleep, trouble falling asleep, waking up at night or sleep that does not leave an individual rested. Data were collected in 2015 using an open-ended question. The sample consisted of n = 475 adolescents from a city in Sweden, aged 15-16 years, with self-assessed sleeping difficulties. The results described the reasons for the adolescents' sleeping difficulties, at a general, thematic level, as an imbalance between requirements and preconditions, distributed to stress, technology use, poor sleep habits, existential thoughts, needs and suffering. To find a balance in their daily lives, adolescents may need support from parents, school nurses and school health services to deal with their sleeping difficulties.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Reasons for sleeping difficulties as perceived by adolescents: a content analysis

Jakobsson

Josefsson

Högberg

2019

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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“…Nighttime sleep and daytime functioning of adolescents are affected by technology use before sleep (Johansson et al, 2016). Similar studies have reported how nighttime texting habits are associated with disrupted sleep (Garmy and Ward, 2018) and that screen time (television and computer) is associated with sleep behavior (Garmy et al, 2012b) among young people.…”

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confidence: 72%

Social Jetlag and Its Association With Screen Time and Nighttime Texting Among Adolescents in Sweden: A Cross-Sectional Study

Hena

Garmy

2020

Front. Neurosci.

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The discrepancy between social and biological clock due to sleep and wake up time difference across weekdays and weekends is referred as social jetlag. The overall aim of this study is to test whether there is an association between both screen time and nighttime texting and social jetlag among 13-to 15-year-old adolescents in Sweden. This study included a cross-sectional survey in which data were collected from all schools with grades 7 and 8 in four municipalities in southern Sweden. The sample consisted of 1518 students (72.7% response rate), among whom 50.7% were girls. Ages varied between 13 and 15 years (mean, 13.9; standard deviation (SD), 0.4). Social jetlag was defined as more than 2 h difference between bedtime and wake-up time on school days compared to weekends. The prevalence of social jetlag among this study population was 53.9%. After adjusting for age, sex, and economic status, the multivariate binary logistic regression analysis results showed that increased screen time (p < 0.001) and texting at night (p = 0.002) were significantly associated with social jetlag. Irregular bedtime and wake-up habits on school days and weekends are associated with nighttime texting and increased screen time. For future research, more focus should be given to identifying causality factors and gain an understanding of the effects of social jetlag, which will help in developing appropriate public health messages and intervention programs.

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“…In cross-sectional studies with children, as well as with adults, bedtime mobile phone use (in the broad definition, above) was associated with later bedtimes [16,22,31,82,85,88,93,223,263], longer sleep onset latency [53,79,112,223,293], shorter sleep duration [14,15,22,36,71,82,86,148,161,202,210], insomnia or sleep problems [5,14,79,85,97,144,199,202,205,235,269,293], reduced sleep quality or sleep efficiency [5,32,53,71,79,82,83,167,202,205], and reduced daytime functioning or tiredness [79,86,93,112,121,202,223,242,248,277,293]. In one study, keeping the phone close, rather than placing the phone at a distance from the bed, was associated with less sleep problems [235].…”

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Mobile Phone Use and Mental Health. A Review of the Research That Takes a Psychological Perspective on Exposure

Thomée

2018

IJERPH

214

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The purpose of this study was to carry out a review of observational studies that consider links between mobile phone use and mental health from a psychological or behavioral perspective. Systematic literature searches in PubMed and PsycINFO for articles published until 2017 were done. Exclusion criteria included: papers that considered radiofrequency fields, attention, safety, relational consequences, sexual behavior, cyberbullying, and reviews, qualitative, and case or experimental studies. A total of 4738 papers were screened by title and abstract, 404 were retrieved in full text, and 290 were included. Only 5% had any longitudinal design. Self-reporting was the dominating method of measurement. One third of the studies included children or youth. A majority of adult populations consisted of university students and/or self-selected participants. The main research results included associations between frequent mobile phone use and mental health outcomes, such as depressive symptoms and sleep problems. Mobile phone use at bedtime was associated with, e.g., shorter sleep duration and lower sleep quality. “Problematic use” (dependency) was associated with several negative outcomes. In conclusion, associations between mobile phone use and adverse mental health outcomes are found in studies that take a psychological or behavioral perspective on the exposure. However, more studies of high quality are needed in order to draw valid conclusions about the mechanisms and causal directions of associations.

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Sleep Habits and Nighttime Texting Among Adolescents

Cited by 34 publications

References 43 publications

Reasons for sleeping difficulties as perceived by adolescents: a content analysis

Reasons for sleeping difficulties as perceived by adolescents: a content analysis

Social Jetlag and Its Association With Screen Time and Nighttime Texting Among Adolescents in Sweden: A Cross-Sectional Study

Mobile Phone Use and Mental Health. A Review of the Research That Takes a Psychological Perspective on Exposure

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