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Racial Disparities in Sleep: Associations With Discrimination Among Ethnic/Racial Minority Adolescents
Author(s) -
Yip Tiffany,
Cheon Yuen Mi,
Wang Yijie,
Cham Heining,
Tryon Warren,
ElSheikh Mona
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.13234
Subject(s) - actigraphy , psychology , sleep (system call) , sleep onset latency , sleep disorder , ethnic group , sleep onset , asian americans , demography , gerontology , psychiatry , medicine , insomnia , sociology , computer science , anthropology , operating system
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.