Journal
DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 313-322Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579419001780
Keywords
adolescent sleep; behavioral health; chronotype; daily diary; parent sleep
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01-HD057164]
- National Institute of Mental Health [T32MH073517]
- UCLA California Center for Population Research - National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant [P2C-HD041022]
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The study found that adolescent sleep chronotype is influenced by individual development and the family environment, and plays an important role in adolescent behavioral health. Adolescent and parent chronotypes are moderately correlated, but each shows only moderate stability over a 1-year period.
The current study used daily assessments of sleep to examine stability and change in sleep chronotype in adolescents and their parents. The study assessed adolescent sleep chronotype according to age, gender, and parent chronotype, and evaluated its associations with emotional and behavioral problems in youth. Participants included of 417 Mexican American adolescents (M-age = 16.0 years, Range = 13.9-20.0) and 403 caregivers, who reported bed and wake times daily for 2 consecutive weeks at two time points spaced 1 year apart. In addition, adolescents completed established self-report questionnaires of emotional and behavioral problems. Chronotype was computed as the midsleep point from bed to wake time on free days, correcting for sleep debt accumulated across scheduled days. Multilevel modeling showed a curvilinear association between adolescent age and chronotype, with a peak eveningness observed between ages 16 to 17. Adolescent and parent chronotypes were contemporaneously correlated, but each was only moderately stable over the 1-year period. Later adolescent chronotype was contemporaneously associated with more substance use in all adolescents. Individual development and the family context shape sleep chronotype in adolescents and parents. Sleep chronotype is implicated in adolescent behavioral health.
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