ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2021
Associations of sleep with psychological problems and well-being in adolescence: causality or common genetic predispositions?
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- Sleep Well, Study Well: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies on the Interplay between Sleep and School Experience in Adolescence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- The Social Side of Sleep: A Systematic Review of the Longitudinal Associations between Peer Relationships and Sleep Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Sleep quality and mindfulness: mediating the relationship between neuroticism and subjective well-being in early adolescents.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2025Article
- Bidirectional associations between accelerometer-based sleep metrics and mental health symptoms from childhood to late adolescence: data from a Brazilian birth cohort.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- The impact of entertainment screen time on sleep quality in Chinese and British adolescents: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Health enhancing behaviors in early adolescence: an investigation of nutrition, sleep, physical activity, mindfulness and social connectedness and their association with psychological distress and wellbeing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Concordance in parent-child and sibling actigraphy-measured sleep: Evidence among early adolescent twins and primary caregivers.Sleep medicine · 2023Article
- Polygenic predisposition, sleep duration, and depression: evidence from a prospective population-based cohort.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- The bidirectional relationship between sleep and externalizing behavior: A systematic review.Sleep epidemiology · 2022Article
- Intraindividual Fluctuations in Sleep Predict Subsequent Goal Setting in Adolescents.Journal for person-oriented research · 2021Article
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundWhereas short and problematic sleep are associated with psychological problems in adolescence, causality remains to be elucidated. This study therefore utilized the discordant monozygotic cotwin design and cross-lagged models to investigate how short and problematic sleep affect psychological functioning.
methodsAdolescent twins (N = 12,803, 13-20 years, 42% male) completed questionnaires on sleep and psychological functioning repeatedly over a two-year interval. Monozygotic twin pairs were classified as concordant or discordant for sleep duration and trouble sleeping. Resulting subgroups were compared regarding internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and subjective well-being.
resultsCross-sectional analyses indicated associations of worse psychological functioning with both short sleep and problematic sleep, and cross-lagged models indicate bidirectional associations. Longitudinal analyses showed that an increase in sleep problems experienced selectively by one individual of an identical twin pair was accompanied by an increase of 52% in internalizing problem scores and 25% in externalizing problem scores. These changes were significantly different from the within-subject changes in cotwins with unchanged sleep quality (respectively, 3% increase and 5% decrease). Psychological functioning did, however, not worsen with decreasing sleep duration.
conclusionsThe findings suggest that sleep quality, rather than sleep duration, should be the primary target for prevention and intervention, with possible effect on psychological functioning in adolescents.
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