Examining the Relationship Between Worry and Sleep: A Daily Process Approach

McGowan, Sarah Kate

doi:10.1016/j.beth.2015.12.003

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“…It is possible that the measures of AAQ-II and FFMQ do not discover the essential processes associated with insomnia, and instead, suppression of thoughts might be the primary focus. This is supported by the observations that rumination and worry might be central processes in insomnia, predicting increased sleep disturbance (McGowan, Behar & Luhmann, 2016;Sunnhed & Jansson-Fröjmark, 2014). This points out the possibility that process measured associated with worry and rumination could be relevant when understanding insomnia.…”

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ACT for sleep - Internet-delivered self-help ACT for sub-clinical and clinical insomnia: A randomized controlled trial

Lappalainen

Langrial

Oinas-Kukkonen

et al. 2019

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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ACT for sleep - Internet-delivered self-help ACT for sub-clinical and clinical insomnia: A randomized controlled trial

Lappalainen

Langrial

Oinas-Kukkonen

et al. 2019

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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“…Finally, in line with previous studies showing an association between worry and health impairment [e.g., Refs. (75, 76)], it negatively predicts positive affect, while it positively predicts negative affect, general stress, sleep quality impairment, and daytime sleepiness. Hence, these results confirm that trait worry predicts many negative physical and psychological outcomes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heavy Study Investment in Italian College Students. An Analysis of Loscalzo and Giannini’s (2017) Studyholism Comprehensive Model

Loscalzo

Giannini

2019

Front. Psychiatry

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Loscalzo and Giannini (2017) recently proposed the construct of studyholism (or obsession toward study) and a theoretical model highlighting its potential antecedents and outcomes. This study aims to analyze some of these antecedents and outcomes by means of a path analysis including both studyholism and study engagement. The participants are 1,958 Italian college students aged between 18 and 60 years ( M age = 23.53 ± 4.43) and heterogeneous as far as their year and major of study are concerned, as well as concerning the city in which they attended their courses. They filled some instruments that allow evaluating studyholism and study engagement, along with individual and situational antecedents (e.g., worry and overstudy climate) and outcomes (e.g., sleep quality, study–relationships conflict, dropout intention). In addition to the path model we performed aiming to test the direct effects we hypothesized, we performed two MANOVAs for analyzing if there were differences on the antecedents and outcomes among the four kinds of student suggested by Loscalzo and Giannini (2017; i.e., engaged studyholics, disengaged studyholics, engaged students, and detached students). The results of this study support Loscalzo and Giannini’s (2017) conceptualization of studyholism as an internalizing disorder, since worry is the strongest predictor of studyholism (β = .67, p < .001). In addition, in line with Loscalzo and Giannini’s (2017) theorization, we found some differences among the four kinds of student on both the antecedents and outcomes we analyzed. This study has critical theoretical, preventive, and clinical implications. It supports the definition of studyholism as an OCD-related disorder. Also, about preventive implications, it shows that interventions aiming to favor students’ wellbeing should target also engaged students, since study engagement predicts social impairment as well as studyholism. Finally, it suggests that in a clinical setting, it is important to distinguish between disengaged studyholics and engaged studyholics as they have different relationships with some antecedents and outcomes; also, they both have functional impairment, even if in different areas.

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“…Pain-catastrophizing has been conceptualized as a form of repetitive negative thinking closely related to worry [12]. Pre-sleep worry, is common in both insomnia and chronic pain [15; 16; 41] and is associated with poor sleep [29]. Analyses of pre-sleep cognitions in those with chronic pain suggest that patients worry about both pain and sleep.…”

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Psychological interventions that target sleep reduce pain catastrophizing in knee osteoarthritis

Lerman¹,

Finan²,

Smith³

et al. 2017

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Pain catastrophizing is a significant risk factor for patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and thus is a target for many psychological interventions for pain. This study examined if interventions targeting sleep found to be effective in improving sleep in KOA also reduce pain catastrophizing measured as a trait through the pain catastrophizing scale and measured as a daytime and nocturnal state through daily diaries. Secondary analyses were conducted on data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in patients with KOA at 5 different time points: pretreatment, midtreatment and posttreatment and at 3- and 6-month follow-up. One hundred patients diagnosed with KOA and insomnia were randomized to receive either 8 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia or a placebo intervention of behavioral desensitization. Multilevel modeling revealed that both intervention groups showed a significant reduction pretreatment to posttreatment in all 3 measures of pain catastrophizing and maintained stable levels through the 6-month follow-up. Increased sleep continuity early in treatment (pretreatment to midtreatment), but not reductions in pain, was associated with a reduction in trait and nocturnal catastrophizing later in treatment (midtreatment to posttreatment). These results suggest that short interventions focusing on sleep can significantly reduce pain catastrophizing even in a clinical population with low baseline levels of catastrophizing, possibly through improving sleep continuity.

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Examining the Relationship Between Worry and Sleep: A Daily Process Approach

Cited by 43 publications

References 82 publications

ACT for sleep - Internet-delivered self-help ACT for sub-clinical and clinical insomnia: A randomized controlled trial

ACT for sleep - Internet-delivered self-help ACT for sub-clinical and clinical insomnia: A randomized controlled trial

Heavy Study Investment in Italian College Students. An Analysis of Loscalzo and Giannini’s (2017) Studyholism Comprehensive Model

Psychological interventions that target sleep reduce pain catastrophizing in knee osteoarthritis

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