Predicting weekday and weekend sleep: Interactions between peers and mothers.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents often experience insufficient, inconsistent and poor-quality sleep. Deviant peer affiliation may promote insufficient or inconsistent sleep schedules, and could be an important factor in understanding adolescents' sleep. Furthermore, parenting behaviours have been shown to impact sleep in youth. We examined relations between deviant peer affiliation and sleep in adolescents, and assessed the role of maternal management of peer relationships as a moderator of these associations. A sample of 131 adolescents (M_age = 15.75 years, SD = 9.5 months; 70% white, 30% black; 54% female) reported their deviant peer affiliation, and mothers reported their directive and non-directive management of peer relationships. Adolescents wore actigraphs for 1 week to assess sleep hours, ef

SUBMITTER: McWood LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12353124 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature