Anxiety predicts dyadic sleep characteristics in couples experiencing insomnia but not in couples without sleep disorders

Walters, Elizabeth; Phillips, Andrew J. K.; Hamill, Kellie; Norton, Peter J.; Drummond, S

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.04.031

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“…This finding supports previous research on individuals’ psychological well‐being and sleep hygiene (Peach et al, 2016; Peltz & Rogge, 2016), and has implications for mental health prevention and intervention. However, contrasting with previous literature one's sleep hygiene was not directly linked with a partner's emotional distress (Walters et al, 2020b). Perhaps modelling emotional distress as a latent variable washed out the nuances from each indicator alone, or perhaps this association occurs indirectly or under different conditions, underlining another avenue for future research.…”

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“…These personal choices and behaviours have even been linked with psychological well‐being, with past work finding that higher depressive symptoms are linked both directly and indirectly with worse sleep hygiene (Peach et al, 2016; Peltz & Rogge, 2016). In addition, an individual's emotional distress has been linked with their partner's sleep outcomes (Walters, Phillips, Hamill, et al, 2020). However, less is known about other types of psychological or emotional distress that are linked with sleep hygiene, such as anxiety and perceived stress, and if sleep hygiene – whether one's own or their partner's – is predictive of emotional distress.…”

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Yours, mine, or ours? Dyadic sleep hygiene and associations with sleep quality, emotional distress, and conflict frequency in mixed‐gender, bed‐sharing couples

Novak,

Miller,

Gunn

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryAlthough prior research demonstrates the interdependence of sleep quality within couples (i.e., the sleep of one partner affects the sleep of the other), little is known about the degree to which couples’ sleep hygiene behaviours are concordant or discordant, and if one's own sleep hygiene or their report of their partners’ sleep hygiene is related to worse relational, psychological, and sleep outcomes. In a sample of 143 mixed‐gender, bed‐sharing couples, each partner completed an online questionnaire consisting of the Sleep Hygiene Index (for themselves and their partner), PROMIS sleep disturbance scale, conflict frequency, PHQ‐4 for anxiety and depressive symptoms, and the Perceived Stress Scale. Paired samples t‐tests between partners were conducted using total and individual‐item Sleep Hygiene Index scores to examine similarities and differences. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) scores of dyadic reports were conducted to examine the level of agreement between each partner's sleep hygiene. Finally, we examined associations between one's own sleep hygiene and their report of their partner's sleep hygiene with both partner's sleep quality, emotional distress, and conflict frequency in a dyadic structural equation model with important covariates and alternative model tests. The results revealed a significant difference between men's (M = 14.45, SD = 7.41) and women's total score self‐report sleep hygiene ([M = 17.67, SD = 8.27]; t(142) = −5.06, p < 0.001) and partners only had similar sleep hygiene for 5 out of the 13 items. Examining dyadic reports of sleep hygiene revealed that partners had moderate agreement on their partners’ sleep hygiene (0.69–0.856). The results from the dyadic structural equation model revealed that poorer sleep hygiene was associated with one's own poor sleep quality, higher emotional distress, and more frequent relational conflict. For both men and women a poorer report of a partner's sleep hygiene was associated with one's own report of higher relationship conflict. Finally, men's poorer report of a partner's sleep hygiene was related better to their own sleep quality but was related to poorer sleep quality for their partners. These results have implications for sleep promotion and intervention efforts as well as for couple relationship functioning.

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Yours, mine, or ours? Dyadic sleep hygiene and associations with sleep quality, emotional distress, and conflict frequency in mixed‐gender, bed‐sharing couples

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Miller,

Gunn

et al. 2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…This is in line with the results of a previous study of patients and their carers ( 30 ). However, a former study in couples found that between-person effect was stronger than the within-person effect, and that anxiety symptoms predicted more aspects of sleep than depression ( 54 ). When an individual shared a bed with a partner, anxiety status might increase the risk of waking up, whereas depression, which is a psychomotor retardation, might not produce the same risk of waking up.…”

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Depression, anxiety and insomnia in Chinese older adults and their family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an actor-partner interdependence model approach

Ding

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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AimsThis study aimed to explore the dyadic effects of depression and anxiety on insomnia symptoms in Chinese older adults and their caregivers living in a community setting.MethodsData were collected from 1,507 pairs of older adults and their caregivers who were in the Guangdong Mental Health Survey in China. The 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder module 7 (GAD-7), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) were used to measure depression, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms. Actor-Partner Interdependence Models (APIM) were used to determine whether anxiety or depression symptoms predicted individual or dyadic insomnia.ResultsOlder adults' and caregivers' depression and anxiety had significant positive correlations with their own and their caregivers' insomnia symptoms (all P < 0.001). Actor effects were found between depression and insomnia symptoms in both older adults and caregivers (B = 0.695, P < 0.001; B = 0.547, P < 0.001, respectively), with one significant partner effects (B = 0.080, P = 0.007). Actor effects were also found between anxiety and insomnia symptoms in both older adults and caregivers (B = 0.825, P < 0.001; B = 0.751, P < 0.001, respectively), with one significant partner effects (B = 0.097, P = 0.004). However, the caregivers' depression and anxiety were not associated with older adults' insomnia symptoms in the APIM analyses.ConclusionsOlder adults and their caregivers had an interrelationship between psychological distress and insomnia. Consequently, healthcare providers might consider involving dyads when designing programs to reduce insomnia and improve psychological distress for family caregivers.

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Microglia in the pathogenesis of depression, insomnia and their comorbidity

Liu,

Guo,

Gao

et al. 2023

Brain Behavior and Immunity Integrative

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Anxiety predicts dyadic sleep characteristics in couples experiencing insomnia but not in couples without sleep disorders

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Yours, mine, or ours? Dyadic sleep hygiene and associations with sleep quality, emotional distress, and conflict frequency in mixed‐gender, bed‐sharing couples

Yours, mine, or ours? Dyadic sleep hygiene and associations with sleep quality, emotional distress, and conflict frequency in mixed‐gender, bed‐sharing couples

Depression, anxiety and insomnia in Chinese older adults and their family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an actor-partner interdependence model approach

Microglia in the pathogenesis of depression, insomnia and their comorbidity

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