A developmental perspective on sleep consistency: Preschool age through emerging adulthood

Autor: Laura, Nicholson, Amy M, Bohnert, Stephanie J, Crowley
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 21:97-116
ISSN: 1540-2010
1540-2002
DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2021.2024192
Popis: Beyond sleep duration, the regularity of sleep patterns (e.g., sleep consistency), including variability in sleep timing (e.g., bedtime, wake time) and duration, is a critical marker of sleep health. Sleep consistency is captured using a variety of methods within the literature (e.g., sleep intraindividual variability, social jetlag), but most of the research focuses on adolescents.Drawing on a developmental perspective, this narrative review highlights how normative changes at the individual (e.g., biological, cognitive, and social) and contextual (e.g., home, school, sociocultural) levels may contribute to inconsistent sleep patterns across development.This review emphasizes how inconsistent sleep may increase across pivotal transitions throughout development (e.g., elimination of naps, puberty, summertime, entering college). Finally, recommendations for measuring sleep consistency and areas to address in future research are discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE