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Psychosocial stress and impaired sleep

Author(s) -

Torbjörn Åkerstedt

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

scandinavian journal of work environment and health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621

H-Index - 103

eISSN - 1795-990X

pISSN - 0355-3140

DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.1054

Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , psychology , stress (linguistics) , sleep deprivation , psychosocial , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , circadian rhythm , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , neuroscience , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , operating system

This review demonstrates that stress is closely related to impaired sleep in cross-sectional studies. In particular, the anticipation of high demands or effort the next day seems important. Sleep recordings show that stress is associated with shortened sleep, fragmentation, and possibly a reduction in sleep stages 3 and 4. Shortened or disturbed sleep causes increases in levels of traditional stress markers (eg, cortisol) and may thus exacerbate the effects of stress. Much knowledge is still lacking, however, particularly about the effects of real-life work stress. The latter requires longitudinal studies in real-life situations.

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