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Sleep Hygiene and Sleep Quality in Italian and American Adolescents
Author(s) -
LEBOURGEOIS MONIQUE K.,
GIANNOTTI FLAVIA,
CORTESI FLAVIA,
WOLFSON AMY,
HARSH JOHN
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1308.044
Subject(s) - sleep hygiene , sleep (system call) , hygiene , sleep quality , medicine , pittsburgh sleep quality index , multilevel model , psychology , gerontology , psychiatry , insomnia , pathology , machine learning , computer science , operating system
A bstract : This study investigated cross‐cultural differences in adolescent sleep hygiene and sleep quality. Participants were 1348 students (655 males; 693 females) aged 12‐17 years from public school systems in Rome, Italy ( n = 776 ) and Southern Mississippi ( n = 572 ). Participants completed the Adolescent Sleep‐Wake Scale and the Adolescent Sleep Hygiene Scale. Reported sleep hygiene and sleep quality were significantly better for Italian than American adolescents. A moderate linear relationship was observed between sleep hygiene and sleep quality in both samples (Italians: R = .40 ; Americans: R = .46 ). Separate hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that sleep hygiene accounted for significant variance in sleep quality, even after controlling for demographic and health variables (Italians: R 2 = .38; Americans: R 2 = .44). The results of this study suggest that there are cultural differences in sleep quality and sleep hygiene practices, and that sleep hygiene practices are importantly related to adolescent sleep quality.