ArticlePloS one2009
Consequences of the timing of menarche on female adolescent sleep phase preference.
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- The onset of pubertal development and actigraphy-assessed sleep during middle childhood: Racial, gender, and genetic effects.Sleep health · 2022Article
- Association of Delaying School Start Time With Sleep-Wake Behaviors Among Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Article
- Weekend night vs. school night sleep patterns, weight status, and weight-related behaviors among adolescents.Sleep health · 2021Article
- Association of Delaying School Start Time With Sleep Duration, Timing, and Quality Among Adolescents.JAMA pediatrics · 2020Observational
- Relationships between sleep duration and adolescent depression: a conceptual replication.Sleep health · 2019Article
- Human Adolescent Phase Response Curves to Bright White Light.Journal of biological rhythms · 2017Article
- From Lark to Owl: developmental changes in morningness-eveningness from new-borns to early adulthood.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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- Morningness-Eveningness and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls: Menarche as a Transition Point.Child development · 2016Article
- Increased Sensitivity of the Circadian System to Light in Early/Mid-Puberty.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2015Article
- Sleep and circadian contributions to adolescent alcohol use disorder.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2015Review
- Circadian rhythms and risk for substance use disorders in adolescence.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2014Review
- School start times for adolescents.Pediatrics · 2014Review
- Chronotype ontogeny related to gender.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2014Article
- A longitudinal assessment of sleep timing, circadian phase, and phase angle of entrainment across human adolescence.PloS one · 2014Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Most parents experience their children's puberty as a dramatic change in family life. This is not surprising considering the dynamics of physical and psychosocial maturation which occur during adolescence. A reasonable question, particularly from the parents' perspective, is: when does this vibrant episode end and adulthood finally start? The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between puberty and the changes in sleep phase preferences during female maturation and adulthood by a cross-sectional survey. The results from 1'187 females aged 5 to 51 years based on self-report measures of sleep preferences on weekdays and on free days as well as the occurrence of menarche, show that in contrast to prepubertal children, adolescent females exhibit a striking progression in delaying their sleep phase preference until 5 years after menarche. Thereafter, the sleep phase preference switches to advancing. The current study provides evidence that a clear shift in sleep-wake cycles temporally linked to menarche heralds the beginning of "adult-like" sleep-wake behaviour in women and can be used as a (chrono)biological marker for the onset of adulthood.
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