High Heart Rate Variability Buffers the Effect of Attachment Insecurity on Sleep Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Sleep quality is an important health-protective factor. Psychosocial factors, including attachment orientation, may be valuable for understanding who is at risk of poor sleep quality and associated adverse health outcomes. High attachment anxiety is reliably associated with adverse health outcomes, whereas high attachment avoidance is associated with adverse health outcomes when co-occurring with poor self-regulatory capacity, indexed by heart rate variability (HRV). We examined the associations between attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, HRV, and sleep quality.

Methods

Using longitudinal data from a sample of 171 older adults measured four times over 1 year ( M = 66.18 years old; 67.83% women), we separated the between-person variance (which we call "trait")

SUBMITTER: Paoletti-Hatcher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11081832 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature