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Stress, Sleep, and Coping Self-Efficacy in Adolescents

ten Brink, Maia
Lee, Hae Yeon
Manber, Rachel
Yeager, David S
Gross, James J
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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.
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Stress, Sleep, Coping self-efficacy, Temporal, Bayesian, Dynamic structural equation models
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JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE
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SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
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2021-03
DOI
10.1007/s10964-020-01337-4
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