Sleep duration, depressive symptoms, and digital self-harm among adolescents.

Autor: Semenza DC; Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA., Meldrum RC; Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA., Testa A; Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA., Jackson DB; Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child and adolescent mental health [Child Adolesc Ment Health] 2022 May; Vol. 27 (2), pp. 103-110. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Mar 24.
DOI: 10.1111/camh.12457
Abstrakt: Background: This study examines the relationship between sleep duration, depression, and engagement in a novel cyber behavior, digital self-harm, among adolescents.
Method: Logistic regression analyses were conducted using cross-sectional data from the 2019 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (N = 9,819; 48% male; avg. grade level = 9th grade [SD = 1.9]) to analyze the association between sleep duration and digital self-harm. A Karlson-Holm-Breen (KHB) analysis was used to assess whether depressive symptoms attenuate this association.
Results: Bivariate results indicated that longer sleep duration was associated with lower incidence of digital self-harm. Multivariate results showed that sleep duration was inversely associated with engaging in digital self-harm, net of all covariates. Depressive symptoms attenuated the influence of sleep duration on digital self-harm by 50.72%.
Conclusions: Both insufficient sleep and depressive symptoms were associated with engagement in digital self-harm among adolescents. Prospective research is needed, however, to confirm this pathway. Practitioners and clinicians should consider discussing digital self-harm with adolescents and parents, especially if adolescents are experiencing poor sleep and depressive symptoms.
(© 2021 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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