Strained Bedfellows: An Actor–Partner Analysis of Spousal Attachment Insecurity and Sleep Quality

Grey, Robert G. Kent de; Uchino, Bert N.; Pietromonaco, Paula R.; Hogan, Jasara N.; Smith, Timothy W.; Cronan, Sierra; Trettevik, Ryan

doi:10.1093/abm/kay037

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“…No actor-partner interactions were observed for self-reported sleep quality, replicating Carmichael & Reis (2005). Although Kent de Grey et al (2019) found that highly anxious couples reported better sleep and highly avoidant couples reported worse sleep, the present study failed to replicate these effects for self-reported sleep quality. Moreover, we found evidence to the contrary for objective sleep measures: having a highly avoidant partner was associated with significantly worse sleep for low-avoidant and anxious people but provided a modest buffer for avoidant people.…”

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“…Kent de Grey et al (2019) argued that avoidant partners sleep poorly together because the intimacy of sleep forces them to confront emotional needs they may have suppressed throughout the day. The present finding that avoidant partners exacerbated low-avoidant and anxious people's sleep problems but buffered avoidant people's sleep points to a different interpretation.…”

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“…However, this strategy may negatively affect anxious and low-avoidant people's sleep: their needs may go unmet by avoidant partners who suppress their own and partners' attachment concerns before or during sleep. Kent de Grey et al (2019) further argued that anxious dyads reported better sleep because co-sleep helps ward off abandonment concerns. However, this study failed to replicate that effect for self-reported sleep quality, replicating Carmichael and Reis's (2005) null findings instead.…”

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“…Covariates. The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression survey (Radloff, 1977) assessed depression symptoms; 1 item assessing sleep was omitted as per Kent de Grey et al (2019). The Hendrick (1988) Relationship Assessment Scale assessed relationship satisfaction.…”

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“…Attachment anxiety and avoidance are associated with worse sleep (Adams et al, 2014), in part because insecure people struggle to down-regulate their threat-monitoring systems. Additionally, romantic partners can quell or exacerbate attachment-related concerns that may arise during co-sleep, helping or hindering restful sleep (Kent de Grey et al, 2019; Overall & Simpson, 2015).…”

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Attachment and sleep: A dyadic intensive longitudinal actigraphy study

Haydon

Moss

2020

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Attachment and sleep are linked across the lifespan, but attachment regulation of sleep among couples is understudied. This study aimed to replicate and extend prior research by testing whether romantic partners’ attachment orientations interacted to predict sleep, assessed via self-report and actigraphy over 14 days. Participants ( N = 208 couples) completed measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. They also wore actigraphy monitors to assess nightly sleep quality and duration. Anxious people self-reported worse sleep quality, replicating two prior studies. In contrast to previous studies, anxious and low-avoidant people slept significantly worse with avoidant partners, while avoidant people slept somewhat better with avoidant partners. Results indicted dyadic regulation of several sleep outcomes and provided new insights regarding how partner avoidance can exacerbate or buffer sleep quality.

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Loneliness and sleep disturbance among first‐year college students: The sequential mediating effect of attachment anxiety and mobile social media dependence

Luo

2022

Psychology in the Schools

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Sleep issues impair students' health and success. This study constructed a sequential mediating model to examine whether attachment anxiety and mobile social media dependence mediated the relationship between loneliness and sleep disturbance. A total of 487 university freshmen (42.09% females, 57.91% males; mean age = 18.19 years) were enrolled in this study and completed self‐report measures of loneliness, sleep disturbance, attachment anxiety, and mobile social media dependence. (1) There were significant positive correlations between loneliness and sleep disturbance. (2) College students' sleep disturbance was affected by loneliness partly through three different pathways: the mediating effect of attachment anxiety, the mediating effect of mobile social media dependence, and the sequential mediating effect of attachment anxiety and mobile social media dependence. Loneliness could positively predict sleep disturbance and attachment anxiety and mobile social media dependence played important mediating roles in this relationship. These findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the factors for sleep disturbance.

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