Open AccessStress, Sleep, and Coping Self-Efficacy in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Maia ten Brink,
Hae Yeon Lee,
Rachel Manber,
David S. Yeager,
James J. Gross
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of youth and adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.883
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1573-6601
pISSN - 0047-2891
DOI - 10.1007/s10964-020-01337-4
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , psychology , self efficacy , health psychology , clinical psychology , path analysis (statistics) , sleep quality , developmental psychology , public health , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , cognition , statistics , nursing , mathematics
Adults are thought to show a sleep-stress spiral in which greater stress worsens sleep quality, which amplifies stress, which leads to worse sleep. This study examined whether adolescents show a similar spiral, and if so, whether coping self-efficacy-believing one can cope with stress-interrupts the spiral. Temporal dynamics of perceived stress, sleep quality, and coping self-efficacy were tracked in 381 9th graders (49% female, mean age 14.43, age range 14-16) using daily surveys across two school weeks (3184 observations). Though expected associations were evident between individuals, only a unidirectional path was found within individuals from sleep quality to perceived stress via coping self-efficacy. This challenges the conventional bidirectional understanding of sleep-stress relations and suggests coping self-efficacy as an intervention target.