ArticleChild development2022
Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unpacking sleep and mental health disparities across childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic and systematic review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2026Pooled it
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- Monitoring Daily Sleep, Mood, and Affect Using Digital Technologies and Wearables: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Pooled it
- More Than Hurt Feelings: Associations Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health, Substance Use, and Victimization Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Discrimination in Middle Eastern and North African Americans predicts Worse Mental Health as Mediated by Sleep.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Sleep difficulties and adolescent internalising symptoms: The moderating role of sleep regularity.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- State-level structural racism and sleep disturbances among Black and Latinx adolescents: Findings from the adolescent brain cognitive development study.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Anhedonia Links Sleep Problems and Suicidal Thoughts: An Intensive Longitudinal Study in High-Risk Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Linking Daily Victimization to Daily Affect Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Sleep Quality and Disturbance.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Sleep disturbance among Chinese survivors of childhood sexual abuse: associations with perceived discrimination and rumination.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Developmental links between ethnic and racial discrimination and sleep.Child development perspectives · 2024Article
- Sleep deficiency and symptoms of pain, fatigue, and depressed mood in youth with and without childhood systemic lupus erythematosus.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2024Article
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- Do Sleep Problems Exacerbate the Mental Health Consequences of Discrimination Among Adults?Psychosomatic medicine · 2024Article
- Ethnic/Racial Identity, Adolescent Sleep, and Somatic Health: Discrimination and Stress Responses as Mediating Mechanisms.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Sleep and Fatigue as Mediators of Racial Discrimination and Internalizing Symptoms in Black Adolescent-Caregiver Dyads.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Linking ethnic/racial discrimination to adolescent mental health: Sleep disturbances as an explanatory pathway.Child development · 2022Article
- Every Day Matters: Using Daily Methods to Understand Oppression and BIPOC Youth Development in Context.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2022Article
- A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies on the interplay between sleep, mental health, and positive well-being in adolescents.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Sleep Profiles Among Ethnically-Racially Minoritized Adolescents: Associations with Sociocultural Experiences and Developmental Outcomes.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
Ethnic/racial discrimination is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes, and this study considered sleep disturbance as a mediating pathway. Employing a combination of daily diary and biannual surveys, multilevel structural equation models estimated the indirect effects of sleep/wake concerns on negative, anxious, and positive mood, rumination, and somatic symptoms. In a sample of 350 urban Asian (74% Chinese, 8% Korean, 4% Indian, 1% Filipinx, 1% Vietnamese, and 12% other), Black, and Latinx (25% Dominican, 24% South American, 22% Mexican, 15% Puerto Rican, 5% Central American, and 9% other) youth (M = 14.27 years, 69% female, 77% U.S. born, 76% monoethnic/racial, data collected from 2015 to 2018), there was evidence for sleep disturbances mediating the impact of ethnic/racial discrimination on adjustment. Nighttime disturbance, daytime dysfunction, and daytime sleepiness evidenced partial or full mediation for daily- and person-level outcomes (υ = 0.1%-17.9%). Reciprocal associations between sleep disturbances and negative mood and rumination were also observed.
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