Peer Victimization and Adolescent Adjustment: The Moderating Role of Sleep.

摘要: The present study examined multiple indices of sleep as moderators the association between peer victimization and adjustment among typically developing adolescents. Participants included 252 adolescents (M = 15.79 years; 66 % European American, 34 African American) their parents. A multi-method, multi-informant design was employed to address research questions. Sleep assessed objectively with actigraphy (sleep minutes efficiency) subjectively self-reports. Adolescents reported on internalizing symptoms. Externalizing behaviors were mother father reports. Subjective sleep/wake problems moderated associations externalizing stronger relation emerged symptoms who higher versus lower levels problems. elevated had across range victimization. However, for those fewer problems, a positive observed. Actigraphy-based efficiency also relations Although associated all youth, lowest such longer more efficient in conjunction low Findings are novel highlight importance considering both bioregulatory processes prediction adolescents' adjustment.