Observational studyPsychoneuroendocrinology2017
Shortened sleep fuels inflammatory responses to marital conflict: Emotion regulation matters.
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- A perinatal coparenting intervention: Effects of a randomized trial on parent cardiometabolic risk and self-reported health.Biological psychology · 2023Trial
- Trait positive affect buffers the association between experimental sleep disruption and inflammation.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Trial
- Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Review
- "I'm Ready This Time": Investigating physiological and emotional habituation to repetitive social stress.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Moving toward affective immunology: Legacy and future directions.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Turning stress into success: A festschrift in honor of Janice Kiecolt-Glaser.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Couples-based health behavior change interventions: A relationship science perspective on the unique opportunities and challenges to improve dyadic health.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- A narrative review of mechanisms linking romantic relationship experiences to sleep quality.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024Review
- Fatigue and fallibility: the perils of prolonged shifts for neonatologists.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023Review
- Associations between sleep and circadian disruption in shift work and perpetration of interpersonal violence.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Review
- Quarreling After a Sleepless Night: Preliminary Evidence of the Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Interpersonal Conflict.Affective science · 2022Article
- Review of Perioperative Music Medicine: Mechanisms of Pain and Stress Reduction Around Surgery.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Emotional Vulnerability to Short Sleep Predicts Increases in Chronic Health Conditions Across 8 Years.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- A Biopsychosocial Approach to Grief, Depression, and the Role of Emotional Regulation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Marriage and Gut (Microbiome) Feelings: Tracing Novel Dyadic Pathways to Accelerated Aging.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Sleep Quality and Inflammation in Married Heterosexual Couples: an Actor-Partner Analysis.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- Evaluation of Allostatic Load as a Mediator of Sleep and Kidney Outcomes in Black Americans.Kidney international reports · 2019Article
- Marriage, divorce, and the immune system.The American psychologist · 2018Review
- When couples' hearts beat together: Synchrony in heart rate variability during conflict predicts heightened inflammation throughout the day.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Sleep problems can boost inflammation and may jeopardize interpersonal functioning, risks that may be magnified in couples. This observational study examined the effects of self-reported recent sleep duration on couples' inflammation, inflammatory responses to a problem discussion, interpersonal behavior, and use of emotion regulation strategies (emotion expression, cognitive reappraisal) during conflict. People who slept less had higher stimulated interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) production after the marital problem discussion than those who slept more. However, using emotion expression and cognitive reappraisal strategies during conflict protected couples who slept less from inflammatory reactivity. Specifically, people's short sleep did not relate to inflammatory increases when they expressed their own feelings more or when their partner reappraised or expressed their emotions more. When both partners slept less, couples interacted in a more hostile way than when at least one partner slept more. These data point to the combination of short sleep and marital conflict as a novel path to heightened inflammation, a risk that partners' emotion regulation strategies may counteract. The study also highlights the role of short sleep in more negative or punishing marital behavior.
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