Racial Disparities in Sleep: Associations With Discrimination Among Ethnic/Racial Minority Adolescents. Issue 3 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yip, Tiffany; Cheon, Yuen Mi; Wang, Yijie; Cham, Heining; Tryon, Warren; El‐Sheikh, Mona
• Is Part Of: Child development. Volume 91:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 914
• Page End: 931
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Child development -- Periodicals; Child psychology -- Periodicals; Child Development -- Periodicals; Child Development; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; Pedicatrics; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13234
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-3920

Abstract

Abstract : This study investigates the same‐day associations between discrimination and sleep among 350 adolescents ages 13–15 ( M = 14.29, SD = 0.65; Asian = 41%, Black = 22%, Latinx = 37%). Assessing sleep duration, sleep onset latency, and wake minutes after sleep onset using wrist actigraphy, Black adolescents slept 35 min less than Asian and 36 min less than Latinx youth. Black adolescents suffered the most wake minutes after sleep onset, followed by Latinx and Asian youth. Latinx youth reported the highest levels of sleep disturbance, whereas Asian youth reported the highest levels of daytime dysfunction. Daily discrimination was associated with lower levels of same‐night sleep onset latency, more sleep disturbance, more next‐day daytime dysfunction, and higher next‐day daytime sleepiness.