Antecedents and Consequences of Sleep Patterns and Ethnic-Racial Discrimination among Ethnically-Racially Diverse Youth

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Abstract

Sleep is a system that is sensitive to environmental stress, including ethnic-racial discrimination, and has important ramifications to a swath of children’s developmental competencies in the short- and long-term. Ethnic-racial discrimination is defined as the differential treatment based on ethnicity-race or on inadequately justified factors other than ethnicity-race (i.e., socioeconomic status) that disadvantage an ethnic-racial group. The studies in the present symposium utilize sophisticated intensive longitudinal methods to advance knowledge regarding the longitudinal relations between discrimination and sleep processes among ethnically-racially diverse samples of youth.

The first paper utilizes a 14-day diary to examine how the longitudinal inter-relations between sleep and discrimination from peers vary when sleep is objectively versus subjectively measured among an ethnically-racially diverse sample of adolescents. The second paper uses a novel and intensive longitudinal approach to examine weekly relationships between ethnic-racial microaggressions and sleep behaviors over a four-week period among a sample of African American and Latino emerging adults. The third paper integrates two daily diaries to explore whether parents’ engagement ethnic-racial socialization (i.e., transmitting information and worldviews about ethnicity-race to youth) reduce the negative effects of discrimination from law enforcement on African American and Latino adolescents’ sleep outcomes. Collectively, these studies complement each other with diverse methods (i.e., objective/subjective reports of sleep, varying study lengths) and distinct goals (i.e., examining temporal ordering and protective factors). In addition, these studies document how salient sources of discrimination across the life span (i.e., discrimination from the peers/police among adolescents and microaggressions among emerging adults) contribute to sleep disturbances.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Chair

• Juan Del Toro, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Discussant

• Emma Kristine Adam, Northwestern University

Individual Presentations

• Negative Peer Ethnic/Racial Interactions and Adolescent Sleep: An Investigation of Bidirectional Associations in Everyday Life - Presenting Author: Youchuan Zhang, Michigan State University; Non-Presenting Author: Yijie Wang, Michigan State University; Non-Presenting Author: Nema Kebbeh, Michigan State University

• Within-Person Associations between Racial Microaggressions and Sleep among African American and Latinx Young Adults - Presenting Author: Mattina Davenport, University of Missouri - Columbia; Non-Presenting Author: Antoinette M. Landor, University of Missouri - Columbia; Non-Presenting Author: Katharine Zeiders, University of Arizona; Non-Presenting Author: Evelyn Danilova Sarsar, University of Arizona; Non-Presenting Author: Melissa Flores, University of Arizona

• Police Stops and Sleep among Black and Latino Adolescents: Does Ethnic-Racial Socialization Confer Protection? - Presenting Author: Juan Del Toro, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Non-Presenting Author: Ming-Te Wang, University of Pittsburgh