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Commentary: The potential of sleep research to contribute to our understanding on antisocial behaviour – a reflection on Brown, Beardslee, Frick, Steinberg and Cauffman (2022)
Author(s) -
Rowe Richard
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.13712
Subject(s) - psychology , psychological intervention , confounding , developmental psychology , sleep (system call) , psychiatry , computer science , operating system , statistics , mathematics
A growing body of work indicates that sleep problems are associated with antisocial behaviour in young people. This opens up the opportunity for interventions that improve sleep to reduce antisocial behaviour. Brown et al. (2022) provide important new leads that can help to target interventions, highlighting that the relationship may be most relevant to aggressive offending and that it is consistent across adolescence and young adulthood. The within‐individual design adopted in this study has a number of methodological strengths. This commentary evaluates the effectiveness of the approach in terms of accounting for confounding effects and addressing temporal ordering. Directions for future research to build on the target paper are considered.