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Positive Affect Is Associated With Fewer Sleep Problems in Older Caregivers but not Noncaregivers

Author(s) -

Lisa Fredman,

Samuel Gordon,

Timothy Heeren,

Sherri O. Stuver

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnt040

Subject(s) - pittsburgh sleep quality index , center for epidemiologic studies depression scale , medicine , depression (economics) , affect (linguistics) , gerontology , sleep (system call) , depressive symptoms , psychology , sleep quality , psychiatry , cognition , macroeconomics , communication , computer science , economics , operating system

Older adults who are depressed or are caregivers experience more sleep problems, whereas recent studies suggest that adults with high positive affect (PA) have fewer sleep problems. This study examined whether the associations of PA and depressive symptoms with sleep problems differed between caregivers and noncaregivers.

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