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RSF-THE RUSSELL SAGE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 43-61Publisher
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.4.03
Keywords
sleep; adolescence; discrimination; actigraphy
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development [K01 HD 064537]
- University of Nebraska Social Sciences and Behavioral Research Consortium (SBSRC)
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Sleep is a key restorative process, and poor sleep is linked to disease and mortality risk. The adolescent population requires more sleep on average than adults but are most likely to be sleep deprived. Adolescence is a time of rapid social upheaval and sensitivity to social stressors including discrimination. This study uses two weeks of daily e-diary measures documenting discrimination exposure and concurrent objective sleep indicators measured using actigraphy. We assess associations between daily discrimination and contemporaneous sleep with a diverse sample of adolescents. This novel study shows youth with higher average discrimination reports have worse average sleep relative to their counterparts. Interestingly, youth reporting daily discrimination have better sleep the day of the report than youth who do not.
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