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Sleep Facilitates Coping: Moderated Mediation of Daily Sleep, Ethnic/Racial Discrimination, Stress Responses, and Adolescent Well‐Being
Author(s) -
Wang Yijie,
Yip Tiffany
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.13324
Subject(s) - actigraphy , psychology , ethnic group , coping (psychology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , mood , moderated mediation , insomnia , psychiatry , social psychology , sociology , anthropology
Using a daily diary design and actigraphy sleep data across 2 weeks among 256 ethnic/racial minority adolescents ( M age = 14.72; 40% Asian, 22% Black, 38% Latinx; 2,607 days), this study investigated how previous‐night sleep (duration, quality) moderated the same‐day associations between ethnic/racial discrimination and stress responses (rumination, problem solving, family/peer support seeking) to predict daily well‐being (mood, somatic symptoms, life satisfaction). On days when adolescents experienced greater discrimination, if they slept longer and better the previous night, adolescents engaged in greater active coping (problem solving, peer support seeking), and subsequently had better well‐being. Adolescents also ruminated less when they slept longer the previous night regardless of discrimination. Findings highlight the role of sleep in helping adolescents navigate discrimination by facilitating coping processes.