The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations

Dahl, Ronald E.

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“…10,19,26,27 Thus, disrupted or insufficient sleep in teens may contribute to "the perfect storm"-impaired decision making that leads to a wide range of "terrible" 28 social, academic, and emotional outcomes among disadvantaged adolescents. We view the issue of disrupted or insufficient sleep among disadvantaged urban adolescents as a salient force in affecting behavioral outcomes.…”

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Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents

2011

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Adolescents tend to experience more problems with sleep loss as a natural consequence of puberty, whereas teens from impoverished urban areas are likely to witness neighborhood violence and/or engage in risk behaviors that may affect sleep. Data from the Mobile Youth Survey, a longitudinal study of impoverished inner-city African-American adolescents (1998-2005; N=20,716; age range=9.75-19.25 years), were used to compare paired years of annual surveys elicited by questions about how sleep was affected when bad things happen to friends or family. Using a cross-lagged panel multivariate approach comparing reports for two sequential years and controlling for age/gender plus exposure to traumatic stress and violence, prior sleep disturbance was associated with carrying a knife/gun, brandishing a knife/gun, using a knife/gun, quick temperedness, warmth toward mother, worry, and belief in the neighborhood street code in the latter year. Conversely, seeing someone cut, stabbed, or shot, using alcohol, worry, and internalized anger were associated with sleep disturbance in a latter year. Although a limited measure of sleep disturbance was used, these findings support further research to examine sleep disturbance and risk behaviors among low-income adolescents.

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Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents

2011

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“…Although medical problems contribute to some individual differences in child sleep (Stein, Mendelsohn, Obermeyer, Amromin, & Benca, 2001), considerable variation in sleep behavior exists among those without obvious medical problems. Researchers have hypothesized that children's sleep patterns are determined by a combination of physiologically driven sleep needs and psychosocial demands, both of which may change with development (Carskadon, 2002;Dahl, 1996Dahl, , 2005.…”

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Sleep timing and quantity in ecological and family context: A nationally representative time-diary study.

Adam¹,

Snell²,

Pendry³

2007

Journal of Family Psychology

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Associations between demographic characteristics, school schedules, activity choices, family functioning, and sleep behaviors were estimated using nationally representative time-diary data from 2,454 children (ages 5.5 to 11.9 years) and adolescents (ages 12.0 to 19.1 years). For weekdays, African American adolescents, Asian children, and those with earlier school start times and longer travel times to school reported fewer sleep hours. More time spent watching television (for children), doing homework (for adolescents), and engaging in religious activities predicted fewer hours, whereas a longer time spent on meals predicted greater hours of weekday sleep. For younger children, greater parental warmth predicted more hours of weekday sleep, whereas for adolescents, stricter household rules were protective. On weekends, African American adolescents and Hispanic children slept less, and there were strong effects of activity choices including time spent on television, computer and videogames, sports, religious activities, socializing, and employment. In accounting for age-related decreases in sleep hours from childhood to adolescence, earlier school start times, greater hours of homework, greater paid employment, less time spent on meals, and fewer household rules were all significant mediators.

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“…These are common activities and experiences during the adolescent years and can either compete with the time available for sleeping or arouse teenagers to a level that makes it difficult to relax at bedtime. Watching television and playing on the computer have been studied less frequently as correlates of sleep time, but these activities have been suggested to be late-night diversions that can prevent teenagers from getting to sleep at a reasonable hour (Dahl, 2002). Finally, helping the family with chores and other tasks is an activity that has shown variability across different ethnic groups and, at higher levels, could conceivably present an additional demand on adolescents' lives that would cut into the time they have available for sleeping (Fuligni, Yip, & Tseng, 2002).…”

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“…We also analyzed the implications of sleep time and variability for four different aspects of adolescents' daily mood and psychological well-being because limited and irregular sleep is thought to diminish individual's ability to regulate mood and negative emotions (Dahl, 2002). Adolescents' daily reports of anxious and depressive feelings were included because of their associations with sleep time in prior survey research, the links of disrupted sleep with anxiety and depression, and the importance of the adolescent period for the emergence of internalizing disorders (McCracken, 2002).…”

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Daily Variation in Adolescents' Sleep, Activities, and Psychological Well‐Being

Fuligni

Hardway

2006

J of Research on Adolesc

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The daily diary method was used to examine the daily dynamics of adolescent sleep time, activities, and psychological well-being among an ethnically diverse sample of over 750 adolescents approximately 14-15 years of age. Studying and stressful demands during the day were modestly but consistently associated with less sleep that evening. Receiving less sleep at night, in turn, was modestly but consistently related to higher levels of anxiety, depressive feelings, and fatigue during the following day. In addition, the daily variability in adolescents' sleep time was notable and just as important for the youths' average levels of daily psychological well-being as was the average amount of time spent sleeping each night. A small number of ethnic and gender differences emerged in the dynamics of adolescent sleep, activities, and well-being. Discussion focuses on the importance of examining variability in adolescents' sleep behaviors in order to better understand the implications of sleep for adolescent well-being and development.

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The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations

Cited by 22 publications

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Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents

Sleep Disturbance and Risk Behaviors among Inner-City African-American Adolescents

Sleep timing and quantity in ecological and family context: A nationally representative time-diary study.

Daily Variation in Adolescents' Sleep, Activities, and Psychological Well‐Being

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