3-084 - The Influence of Parental Risk Factors and Extrafamilial Stressors on Sleep from Infancy to Emerging Adulthood

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Given that poor sleep increases youth's risk for a host of poor developmental outcomes, it is important to understand factors that undermine their sleep. This symposium examines how the social context, in particular, shapes sleep from infancy into emerging adulthood. Focusing on the family context, Papers 1 and 2 highlight parental influences on youth’s sleep. Paper 1 examined the long-term impact of parental adversity (e.g., daily hassles, depression) during infancy on sleep during middle childhood. Although early adversity predicted poor sleep, this association was buffered by positive parent personality traits (e.g., optimism). Paper 2 explored how day-to-day changes in parental stress and negative affect shape adolescent sleep. On days when parents experienced more negative affect, adolescents who faced more life event stressors slept less and had poorer quality sleep that night. As children progress through adolescence and into emerging adulthood, they face increasing demands and their social worlds further expand beyond their family; thus it is essential to examine how extrafamilial stressors influence sleep. Paper 3 compared the relative strength of different types of stressors (e.g., interpersonal, academic, neighborhood) on the impairment of adolescent sleep and found stressors related to family relationships, close friendships and school to impinge most strongly on adolescent sleep duration and quality. Paper 4 explored the bidirectional associations between sleep and social functioning among college students. Although daily interpersonal distress did not impact sleep, inadequate and disturbed sleep predicted increases in interpersonal distress, extending Papers 1-3 to show that healthful sleep is crucial for social adjustment.

Sub Unit

• Health, Growth, Injury

Chair

• Kim M Tsai, San Jose State University

Individual Presentations

• Early Parental Positive Personality and Adversity: Associations with Children’s Sleep - Presenting Author: Samantha A Miadich, Arizona State University; Non-Presenting Author: Leah D. Doane, Arizona State University; Non-Presenting Author: Mary C. Davis, Arizona State University; Non-Presenting Author: Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant, Arizona State University

• The Influence of Parental Daily Stress and Mood on Adolescent Sleep - Presenting Author: Kim M Tsai, San Jose State University; Non-Presenting Author: Jessica J Chiang, Northwestern University; Non-Presenting Author: Joanna J Kim, UCLA; Non-Presenting Author: Andrew J Fuligni, UCLA

• Losing Sleep Over It: Family, Friend and Academic Stress and Sleep Disruption in Older Adolescents - Presenting Author: Emma Adam, Northwestern University; Non-Presenting Author: Sarah Collier Villaume, Northwestern University; Non-Presenting Author: Ednah Ezichi Nwafor, Northwestern University; Non-Presenting Author: Addie Shrodes, Northwestern University

• Sleep Behaviors and Interpersonal Stressors in University: An Examination of Bidirectional Associations - Presenting Author: Royette Tavernier, Wesleyan University