Effects of daily maladaptive coping on nightly sleep in mothers.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined effects of daily rumination and suppression in response to stressors on objective and subjective sleep among mothers.

Design

Participants were 183 mothers, including chronically stressed mothers of children with an autism spectrum disorder (M-ASD; n = 92) and age-matched mothers of neurotypical children (M-NT; n = 91). In an intensive longitudinal design, participants provided reports of daily rumination and suppression, nightly objective actigraphy-defined sleep and nightly subjective sleep quality for seven consecutive days at baseline, 9 months and 18 months.

Main outcome measures

Total sleep time, sleep fragmentation, sleep onset latency, and subjective sleep quality.

Results

Among M-NT with above average depressive symptoms, higher da

SUBMITTER: Felder JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5662476 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature