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Discrimination and adjustment in adolescence: the moderating role of sleep.
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- Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Post-adoption experiences of discrimination moderated by sleep quality are associated with depressive symptoms in previously institutionalized youth over and above deprivation-induced depression risk.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Developmental links between ethnic and racial discrimination and sleep.Child development perspectives · 2024Article
- Moderation Effects of Daily Behavior on Associations Between Symptoms and Social Participation Outcomes After Burn Injury: A 6-Month Digital Phenotyping Study.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Do Sleep Problems Exacerbate the Mental Health Consequences of Discrimination Among Adults?Psychosomatic medicine · 2024Article
- Social class discrimination during adolescence as a mediator of socioeconomic disparities in actigraphy-assessed and self-reported sleep.Sleep medicine · 2023Article
- Ethnic/racial discrimination and academic grades among adolescents: moderation by sleep regularity.Journal of sleep research · 2023Article
- Sleep and disparities in child and adolescent development.Child development perspectives · 2022Article
- Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents.Child development · 2022Article
- Linear and nonlinear associations between the sleep environment, presleep conditions, and sleep in adolescence: moderation by race and socioeconomic status.Sleep medicine · 2022Article
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objectivesWe examined multiple actigraphy-based sleep parameters as moderators of associations between experiences of general and racial discrimination and adolescent internalizing symptoms (anxiety, depression) and externalizing behavior (rule-breaking). Adolescent sex and race were examined as additional moderators.
methodsParticipants were 272 adolescents (Mage = 17.3 years, SD = 0.76; 51% male; 59% White/European American, 41% Black/African American). Sleep was assessed using actigraphs for 7 consecutive nights from which sleep duration (minutes), efficiency, and variability in minutes over the week were derived. Youth reported on their experiences of general discrimination, racial discrimination, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and rule-breaking behavior.
resultsBoth types of discrimination were associated with poorer adjustment outcomes. Longer sleep duration, greater sleep efficiency, and less variability in sleep duration were protective in associations between race-specific and general discrimination and internalizing symptoms. Findings for duration and efficiency were more pronounced for females such that the adverse effects of discrimination were minimized among females with longer and more efficient sleep. Greater variability in sleep exacerbated rule-breaking behavior among adolescents experiencing general or racial discrimination. Associations did not differ by adolescent race.
conclusionsShort and poor-quality sleep may exacerbate internalizing symptoms for adolescents experiencing discrimination, particularly females. Variability in sleep duration was a key moderator of associations between discrimination and internalizing symptoms as well as rule-breaking behavior. Findings illustrate that actigraphy-assessed sleep parameters play a key role in ameliorating or exacerbating adjustment problems associated with discrimination.
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