Healthy Habits among Adolescents: Sleep, Exercise, Diet, and Body Image

Harris, Kathleen Mullan; King, Rebecca; Gordon‐Larsen, Penny

doi:10.1007/0-387-23823-9_8

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“…As others have argued, consistency in everyday routines supports positive development (Harris et al, 2005). Regularity in daily activities may reflect a more organized and child-centered home life, and regularity in sleep may make it easier for youth to fall asleep at night and wake up the next morning.…”

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“…Fuligni and Hardway (2006) collected 14 days of diary data from a multiethnic sample of adolescents and found that variation in sleep duration averaged about one hour over this two week period. Such a pattern may be problematic given the importance of regularity and routine for youth well-being (Harris, King, & Gordon-Larsen, 2005): Irregular sleep patterns can make it harder for youth to fall asleep and stay asleep at night or to wake up in the morning, and they also may contribute to sleepiness and napping during the day. Importantly, researchers have highlighted the significance of sleep deprivation in daytime sleepiness and napping, but diary studies have not yet provided data on napping and its correlates in adolescence.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sleep in Mexican-American Adolescents: Social Ecological and Well-Being Correlates

McHale

Kim

Kan

et al. 2010

J Youth Adolescence

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A burgeoning body of research documents links between sleep and adjustment in adolescence, but little is known about the role of the social ecology in promoting healthful sleeping habits. This study was aimed at identifying the socio-cultural correlates of adolescents’ sleep, including average nighttime sleep duration, average daytime napping, and night-to-night variability in sleep duration and assessing the links between these dimensions of sleep and adjustment in Mexican American youth. Participants were 469 Mexican American adolescents (50.5% female) and their mothers and fathers. Data on family socio-cultural characteristics and youth adjustment were collected in home interviews with youth, mothers, and fathers, and, during 7 evening telephone interviews, adolescents reported on nighttime sleep and daytime napping for the prior 24-hour period. Night-to night variability and napping were more strongly linked to youth depressive symptoms and risky behavior than was average nighttime sleep, whereas nighttime sleep predicted lower body mass index. Lower parental acculturation and fathers’ familism values predicted more healthful sleep, and higher levels of family income, parental education and neighborhood crime predicted less healthful sleep. In addition to illuminating the significance of socio-cultural influences on youths’ sleep, this study contributes to the literature by documenting the multidimensionality of sleep patterns and their links with adjustment in an understudied population.

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Section: Sleep In Adolescencementioning

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Sleep in Mexican-American Adolescents: Social Ecological and Well-Being Correlates

McHale

Kim

Kan

et al. 2010

J Youth Adolescence

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“…General health behaviors : one reason an adolescent may both prioritize sleep and abstain from or limit their substance use may be that they strive to lead an overall healthy lifestyle. Research shows that adolescents who report healthy sleep patterns are also likely to report being physically active and/or having healthy diets, 27,31 and that higher levels of general exercise (as opposed to sports participation) are associated with lower substance use. 32 Academic performance : adolescents with strong priority on academic performance may make sure they meet a minimum sleep duration time in order to maintain high grades, but may also limit sleep in order to complete homework, prepare for tests, or participate in activities that will boost the likelihood of college admission.…”

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Sleep and Substance Use among US Adolescents, 1991-2014

et al. 2016

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Objectives To examine associations between sleep and alcohol, amphetamine, cigarette, marijuana, and non-heroin narcotic use among US middle and high school students, trends in associations over time, and the comparative impact of select covariates on association strength. Methods Data from the 1991–2014 nationally representative Monitoring the Future study of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade US students were used to estimate standardized correlations between the frequency of getting at least 7 hours of sleep (7+ sleep) and substance use frequency while simultaneously regressing both outcomes on key covariate domains. Results As 7+ sleep frequency increased, substance use frequency significantly decreased and vice versa. Overall, association strength was inversely associated with grade. Associations were generally modest, varied across substances, and weakened over the historical period examined for 8th and 10th graders. Associations showed little variance by sex and racial/ethnic subgroups. Controlling for deviance, psychosocial, and general health covariates significantly attenuated association strength. Conclusions Among US secondary students, 7+ sleep/substance use associations were largely explained by individual deviance, psychosocial, and general health characteristics. Awareness and exploitation of these shared associations may be useful in improving substance use prevention and/or treatment efforts.

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“…As noted above, a measure of consistent participation in activities during the high school years has been created using data from NELS (Zaff et al, 2003). While it might be desirable to track consistent exercise and healthy habits (Harris et al, 2005), data availability poses a barrier. Some information has been collected in the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, but the first two waves are just a year apart, and the third wave is about 5 years later.…”

Section: Youth Connections Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%