Socioeconomic Adversity and Women's Sleep: Stress and Chaos as Mediators

El‐Sheikh, Mona; Keiley, Margaret K.; Bagley, Erika J.; Chen, Eric

doi:10.1080/15402002.2014.940110

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“…Interestingly, no published study to date has examined household chaos as a predictor of sleep in infants and parents during the infants’ first year. Much of the work on household chaos and sleep has instead focused on adults (El-Sheikh, Keiley, Bagley, & Chen, 2014) or children in preschool, grade school, or adolescence (Appelhans et al, 2014; Bridgett, Burt, Laake, & Oddi, 2013; Brown & Low, 2008; Ferretti & Bub, 2014; Gregory, Eley, O’Connor, Rijsdijk, & Plomin 2005; Lumeng et al, 2007; Staples, Bates, & Petersen, 2015). In these studies, higher household chaos was generally linked to more child sleep problems, suggesting household chaos would also negatively influence infant sleep during the first year of life.…”

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Household chaos and family sleep during infants’ first year.

Whitesell¹,

Crosby²,

Anders³

et al. 2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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Household chaos has been linked with dysregulated family and individual processes. The present study investigated linkages between household chaos and infant and parent sleep, a self-regulated process impacted by individual, social, and environmental factors. Studies of relations between household chaos and child sleep have focused on older children and teenagers, with little attention given to infants or parent sleep. This study examines these relationships using objective measures of household chaos and sleep while controlling for, respectively, maternal emotional availability at bedtime and martial adjustment, in infant and parent sleep. Multilevel modeling examined mean and variability of sleep duration and fragmentation for infants, mothers, and fathers when infants were 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months (N = 167). Results indicated infants in higher chaos homes experienced delays in sleep consolidation patterns, with longer and more variable sleep duration, and greater fragmentation. Parent sleep was also associated with household chaos such that in higher chaos homes, mothers and fathers experienced greater variability in sleep duration, which paralleled infant findings. In lower chaos homes, parents' sleep fragmentation mirrored infants' decreasingly fragmented sleep across the first year and remained lower at all timepoints compared to parents and infants in high chaos homes. Collectively, these findings indicate that after controlling for maternal emotional availability and marital adjustment (respectively) household chaos has a dysregulatory impact on infant and parent sleep. Results are discussed in terms of the potential for chaos-induced poor sleep to dysregulate daytime functioning and, in turn, place parent-infant relationships at risk. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Household chaos and family sleep during infants’ first year.

Whitesell¹,

Crosby²,

Anders³

et al. 2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Both worries about adversities and experience of adversities are types of stressors 30 . The stress of experiencing adversities has been shown to impair sleep [31][32][33] , while the stress of worrying about life events has been associated with shorter sleep length and greater sleep disturbance 34,35 . Numerous biological studies have focused on the pathways underlying these effects, including disruption of HPA axis activity and increased cortisol production, and bidirectional changes between hormonal variation and circadian rhythm 36,37 A. I Inadequate sleep may reinforce the impact of stressors by reducing individual's ability to respond effectively, leading to a maladaptive psychophysiological cycle [38][39][40][41] .…”

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Are adversities and worries during the COVID-19 pandemic related to sleep quality? Longitudinal analyses of 48,000 UK adults

Wright

Steptoe

Fancourt

2020

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There are concerns that both the experience of adversities during the COVID-19 pandemic and worries about experiencing adversities will have substantial and lasting effects on mental health. One pathway through which both experience of and worries about adversity may impact health is through effects on sleep. We used data from 48,723 UK adults in the COVID-19 Social Study assessed weekly from 01/04/2020-12/05/2020 to study the association between adversities and sleep quality. We studied six categories of adversity including both worries and experiences of: illness with COVID-19, financial difficulty, loss of paid work, difficulties acquiring medication, difficulties accessing food, and threats to personal safety. We used random-effect within-between models to account for all time-invariant confounders. Both the total number of adversity experiences and total number of adversity worries were associated with lower quality sleep. Each additional experience was associated with a 1.16 (95% CI = 1.10, 1.22) times higher odds of poor quality sleep while each additional worry was associated with a 1.20 (95% CI = 1.17, 1.22) times higher odds of poor quality sleep. When considering specific experiences and worries, all worries and experiences were significantly related to poorer quality sleep except experiences relating to employment and finances. Having a larger social network offered some buffering effects on associations but there was limited further evidence of moderation by social or psychiatric factors. Poor sleep may be a mechanism by which COVID-19 adversities are affecting mental health. This highlights the importance of interventions that support adaptive coping strategies during the pandemic.

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“…24–26 A small number of studies have examined the relationship between household chaos and sleep, and most, though not all, 27 have reported increased levels of chaos associated with increased sleep problems in preschool 28–30 and school-age children. 31 Household chaos has also been found to mediate the relationships between SES and poor sleep in women 32 as well as between young children’s emotional/behavioral problems and bedtime resistance. 28 …”

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Household chaos and sleep-disturbing behavior of family members: results of a pilot study of African American early adolescents

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Background Although disorganized, chaotic households have been linked to poorer sleep outcomes, how household chaos actually manifests itself in the behaviors of others around the bedtime of a child or adolescent is not well understood. Objective To determine whether household chaos was associated with specific, nightly sleep-disturbing activities of adolescents’ family members. Design Longitudinal study Participants Twenty-six African-American or multi-ethnic early adolescent (ages 11–12 years) and parent dyads, recruited from local schools and social-service agencies in greater Cleveland, OH. Measurements Over 14 days, each night at bedtime, adolescents identified family-member activities keeping them awake or making it difficult to sleep by using a smart-phone-administered survey. Household organization was assessed via parent-completed, validated instruments. A generalized linear mixed model examined associations between each activity and household-organization measures. Results Adjusted for the effect of school being in session the next day, an increasingly chaotic household was associated with increased odds of household members disturbing adolescents’ efforts to fall asleep by watching TV/listening to music (odds ratio [OR]=1.8, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.2–3.2), phoning/texting (OR=1.7, 95%CI =1.2–2.9), or having friends/relatives over visiting at the home (OR=1.6, 95%CI =1.0–3.0). Conversely, a more chaotic household was associated with decreased odds of adolescents reporting that “nothing” was keeping them awake or making it more difficult to sleep (OR=0.6, 95%CI =0.4–0.8). Enforced sleep rules were inconsistently associated with sleep-disturbing behaviors. Conclusion Improving early-adolescent sleep may benefit from considering the nighttime behavior of all household members and encouraging families to see that improving early-adolescent sleep requires the household’s participation.

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Socioeconomic Adversity and Women's Sleep: Stress and Chaos as Mediators

Cited by 26 publications

References 61 publications

Household chaos and family sleep during infants’ first year.

Household chaos and family sleep during infants’ first year.

Are adversities and worries during the COVID-19 pandemic related to sleep quality? Longitudinal analyses of 48,000 UK adults

Household chaos and sleep-disturbing behavior of family members: results of a pilot study of African American early adolescents

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