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Developmental Trends In Sleep During Adolescents' Transition To Young Adulthood, Heejung Park
Developmental Trends In Sleep During Adolescents' Transition To Young Adulthood, Heejung Park
Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship
Objective: Poor sleep poses negative health consequences for youth, yet few longitudinal actigraphy studies have examined basic developmental trends in sleep across adolescents’ transition to young adulthood. In this longitudinal actigraphy study, stability of individual differences and trajectories of sleep during and after high school were examined. The degree to which sleep trajectories differed by college attendance status was also studied.
Methods: A total of 343 youth with Asian, Latino, and European American backgrounds completed eight days of wrist actigraphy at two-year intervals in Wave 1(n= 295, Mage= 16.39), Wave 2 (n= …