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Trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep duration, quality, and variability from childhood to adolescence: downstream effects on mental health.
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- 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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- Adding fuel to the fire: How childhood and adolescent histories of interparental conflict amplify sleep problems during the transition to emerging adulthood.Child development · 2026Article
- Adolescent Mental Health and Health-Related Behaviors Across Language-Based School Systems in South Tyrol, Italy.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Heterogeneous Associations Between Objectively Measured Screen Time and Sleep in Early Adolescence.Technology, mind, and behavior · 2026Article
- Sleep Health Dimensions From Wearables and Transdiagnostic Mental Health in Young Adolescents.JAMA pediatrics · 2026Article
- Sleep regularity, circadian rhythms, and chronotype as mechanisms of risk for affective dysregulation in female adolescents.Development and psychopathology · 2026Article
- The association between perceived bedtime autonomy, sleep patterns, and daytime functioning in adolescents.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Article
- From Counting Dollars to Counting Sheep: Exploring Simultaneous Change in Economic Well-Being and Sleep among African American Adolescents.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- The Relations between Children's Sleep and School Engagement: Moderation by Socioeconomic Status and Sex.Social development (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Changes in actigraphy-assessed sleep from childhood to adolescence: The role of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage.Sleep health · 2025Article
- Using a Consumer Wearable Activity Monitoring Device to Study Physical Activity and Sleep Among Adolescents in Project Viva: Cohort Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- "Ready for Landing"-study protocol for the evaluation of a brief sleep hygiene group intervention for youth with psychiatric disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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objectivesWe examined growth trajectories of four actigraphy-derived sleep parameters (sleep minutes, sleep efficiency, and variability in sleep minutes and efficiency across a week of assessments) across childhood and adolescence and examined individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex. We also assessed the predictive effect of growth trajectories of sleep parameters on growth trajectories of mental health outcomes and moderation by race and sex.
methodYouth (N = 199, 49% female, 65% white, 32% black, 3% biracial) and their parents participated in five waves of data (M ages were 9, 10, 11, 17, and 18 across waves). Participants were from a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds.
resultsAcross participants, sleep minutes, sleep efficiency, and variability in sleep minutes and efficiency demonstrated significant linear change across childhood and adolescence. Whereas sleep duration shortened over time, sleep efficiency improved. Youth exhibited increases in night-to-night variability in sleep minutes and reductions in night-to-night variability in sleep efficiency. Highlighting the importance of individual differences, some race- and sex-related effects emerged. Black youth and male youth experienced steeper declines in their sleep duration across development relative to their respective counterparts. Black youth also demonstrated smaller improvements in sleep efficiency and greater variability in sleep efficiency compared to white youth. Finally, trajectories of sleep efficiency and variability in sleep minutes predicted trajectories of internalizing symptoms and externalizing behaviors.
conclusionsFindings showed significant changes in developmental trajectories of four sleep parameters across childhood and adolescence. We discuss the empirical and translational implications of the findings.
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