Bidirectional, Temporal Associations of Sleep with Positive Events, Affect, and Stressors in Daily Life Across a Week

Sin, Nancy L.; Almeida, David M.; Crain, Tori L.; Kossek, Ellen Ernst; Berkman, Lisa F.; Buxton, Orfeu M.

doi:10.1007/s12160-016-9864-y

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“…These findings are in line with previous work indicating that psychological stress is a pathway through which life events or stressors may negatively affect sleep quality. 12 , 16 The findings also add to a growing literature documenting cross-sectional associations between childhood trauma and sleep quality in adulthood, as well as relationships between childhood trauma and changes in sleep quality associated with a life event. 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 12 …”

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“… 13 , 14 Furthermore, in previous work, psychosocial factors including life stress predicted sleep outcomes in AI college students. 15 Based on these findings and data from other racial and ethnic groups indicating that life events and stressors negatively impact sleep, 16 , 17 , 18 it is possible that in AIs, childhood trauma may predict changes in sleep in response to life stressors.…”

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Childhood trauma as a predictor of changes in sleep quality in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

John‐Henderson

2020

Sleep Health

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Background Early life adversity associates with poor sleep in adulthood and is believed to sensitize individuals to later stressors. Infectious disease outbreaks increase psychological stress, and life events impact sleep quality. American Indians have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective Investigate whether childhood trauma predicts changes in sleep quality following onset of the pandemic and test whether pandemic stress contributes to changes in sleep. Methods In a sample of 210 American Indian adults (Age M(SD) = 55.09(13.10), 59.5% female) demographics, childhood trauma and sleep quality were measured at Time 1. One month following the onset of the pandemic, psychological stress specific to the pandemic and sleep quality were measured. Results Using linear regression controlling for age, sex, income, and sleep quality at Time 1, childhood adversity predicted both psychological stress specific to the pandemic and changes in sleep quality from Time 1 to Time 2 (β = 0.33, t(205) = 4.88, P < .001, ΔR 2 = 0.10) and (β = 0.24, t(204) = 3.48, P < .001, ΔR 2 = 0.05), respectively. Mediation analyses indicated a significant indirect effect between childhood adversity and changes in sleep quality through COVID-19 stress (indirect effect (standard error, SE) = (0.03(0.01), 95% confidence interval = [0.003, 0.03]). Conclusions In American Indians childhood trauma predicts greater declines in sleep quality associated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in part because greater psychological stress related to COVID-19. Future work should identify factors which alleviate stress related to life events for individuals who experienced childhood trauma in order to improve health behaviors and health.

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Childhood trauma as a predictor of changes in sleep quality in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

John‐Henderson

2020

Sleep Health

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“…People who experience more frequent daily positive events tend to have higher positive affect (Zautra et al, 2005), better health behaviors (Sin et al, 2015, 2017; Tomfohr et al, 2011), lower body mass index (Sin et al, 2015), and lower levels of inflammation (Bajaj et al, 2016; Jain et al, 2007; Sin et al, 2015), compared to those who report fewer daily positive events. The previously observed links between daily positive events and reduced inflammation may be due, at least in part, to normative HPA axis activity and less glucocorticoid resistance (Miller et al, 2002; Rohleder, 2012).…”

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Daily positive events and diurnal cortisol rhythms: Examination of between-person differences and within-person variation

Sin

Ong

Stawski

et al. 2017

Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Growing evidence from field studies has linked daily stressors to dysregulated patterns of diurnal cortisol. Less is known about whether naturally-occurring positive events in everyday life are associated with diurnal cortisol. The objectives of this study were to evaluate daily positive events as predictors of between-person differences and within-person (day-to-day) variations in diurnal cortisol parameters, in addition to daily positive events as buffers against the associations between daily stressors and cortisol. In the National Study of Daily Experiences, 1,657 adults ages 33–84 (57% female) reported daily experiences during telephone interviews on 8 consecutive evenings. Saliva samples were collected 4 times per day on 4 interview days and assayed for cortisol. Multilevel models were used to estimate associations of daily positive events with cortisol awakening response (CAR), diurnal cortisol slope, and area under the curve (AUC). At the between-person level, people who experienced more frequent positive events exhibited a steeper diurnal cortisol slope, controlling for daily stressors, daily affect, and other covariates. At the within-person level, positive events in the morning (but not prior-night or afternoon/evening events) predicted steeper decline in cortisol across that day; positive events were also marginally associated with lower same-day AUC. Associations were not mediated by daily positive affect, and positive events did not buffer against stressor-related cortisol alterations. These findings indicate that individual differences and day-to-day variations in daily positive events are associated with diurnal cortisol patterns, independent of stressors and affect.

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“…Our study design involved 8 days of assessment and enabled testing each direction of effect, controlling for the other direction. Recent work testing temporal directions separately suggests that nights of longer sleep hours and better sleep quality predicted perceiving fewer stressors or less negative affect the next day; however, stressors or affect did not predict same‐night sleep hours or quality (Bouwmans et al ., ; Sin et al ., ). Advancing that work, the current study tested simultaneously the two competing directions (i.e.…”

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Daily antecedents and consequences of nightly sleep

Lee

Crain

McHale

et al. 2016

Journal of Sleep Research

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Summary Sleep can serve as both cause and consequence of individuals’ everyday experiences. We built on prior studies of the correlates of sleep, which have relied primarily on cross-sectional data, to examine the antecedents and consequences of sleep using a daily diary design. Specifically, we assessed the temporal sequence between nightly sleep and daily psychosocial stressors. Parents employed in a U.S. information technology company (N=102) completed 8 consecutive daily diaries at both baseline and one year later. In telephone interviews each evening, participants reported on the previous night’s sleep hours, sleep quality, and sleep latency. They also reported daily work-to-family conflict and time inadequacy (i.e., perceptions of not having enough time) for their child and for themselves to engage in exercise. Multilevel models simultaneously testing lagged and non-lagged effects revealed that sleep hours and sleep quality were associated with next-day consequences of work-to-family conflict and time inadequacy, whereas psychosocial stressors as antecedents did not predict sleep hours or quality that night. For sleep latency, the opposite temporal order emerged: on days with more work-to-family conflict or time inadequacy for child and self than usual, participants reported longer sleep latencies than usual. An exception to this otherwise consistent pattern was that time inadequacy for child also preceded shorter sleep hours and poorer sleep quality that night. The results highlight the utility of a daily diary design for capturing the temporal sequences linking sleep and psychosocial stressors.

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Bidirectional, Temporal Associations of Sleep with Positive Events, Affect, and Stressors in Daily Life Across a Week

Cited by 107 publications

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Childhood trauma as a predictor of changes in sleep quality in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Childhood trauma as a predictor of changes in sleep quality in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Daily positive events and diurnal cortisol rhythms: Examination of between-person differences and within-person variation

Daily antecedents and consequences of nightly sleep

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