A new study of adolescents suggests that obtaining an insufficient amount of
sleep increases variability in sadness, anger, energy and feelings of sleepiness.
Not exact matches
Results show that adolescents showed
increased variability in sadness, anger, and sleepiness when
sleep was restricted compared to when
sleep was extended.
«We've known for a while that shift workers are associated with
increased health risks, and shift workers have extreme
variability in their
sleep timing between workdays and non-workdays,» Knutson says.
Results show that adolescents showed
increased variability in sadness, anger, and sleepiness when
sleep was restricted compared to when
sleep was extended.
In contrast, initial levels of depressive symptoms in the spring of the senior year of high school predicted
increased subjective
sleep problems and actigraphy - measured
sleep onset latency and
sleep start
variability in the fall of the first year of college.
In addition, the authors found that conflict with mothers (but not fathers) was associated with
increased sleep variability whereas intimacy with parents was not associated with either
sleep duration or
sleep variability in this sample.