Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Adolescent Sleep Patterns
- 1 Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
- 2 Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
- 3 Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence
- 4 Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent
- 5 Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys
- 6 Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep
- 7 Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
- 8 Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
- 9 Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 10 What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us about Adolescent Sleep?
- 11 Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents within Current Educational Structures: An Uncharted Path
- 12 Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look Like in the 21st Century?
- 13 Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior
- 14 Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective
- 15 The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance
- 16 The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
- Index
- References
7 - Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Adolescent Sleep Patterns
- 1 Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
- 2 Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
- 3 Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence
- 4 Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent
- 5 Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys
- 6 Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep
- 7 Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
- 8 Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
- 9 Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 10 What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us about Adolescent Sleep?
- 11 Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents within Current Educational Structures: An Uncharted Path
- 12 Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look Like in the 21st Century?
- 13 Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior
- 14 Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective
- 15 The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance
- 16 The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
- Index
- References
Summary
Several authors have verified that adolescents' sleep patterns exhibit some special features that distinguish them from other age cohorts. In summary, they show a sleep phase delay compared with patterns in younger children, a more irregular sleep schedule across the week, and a shorter sleep length on weekdays (Anders, Carskadon, & Dement, 1980; Rugg-Gunn, Hackett, Appleton, & Eastoe, 1984; Strauch & Meier, 1988). Despite the reduced amount of sleep on weekdays, the need for sleep does not decrease and adolescents tend to extend sleep on weekends and holidays (Levy, Gray-Donald, Leech, Zvagulis, & Pless, 1986; Strauch & Meier, 1988; Andrade, Benedito-Silva, Domenice, Arnhold, & Menna-Barreto, 1993; Szymczak, Jasinska, Pawlak, & Zwierzkowska, 1993). They show a high incidence of daytime sleepiness complaints, trouble in falling asleep at night, and difficulty in waking up in the morning (Bearpark, 1986; Andrade, Benedito-Silva, Domenice, Arnhold, & Menna-Barreto, 1993; Saarenpää-Heikkilä, Rintahaka, Laippala, & Koivikko, 1995).
Various factors may relate to adolescents' sleep patterns, probably many of them interacting with one another. Factors include an increase of school and social commitments (Allen, 1992; Manber et al., 1995); psychological variables such as depression, anxiety, and worry (Price, Coates, Thoresen, & Grinstead 1978; Bearpark, 1986; Carskadon, Seifer, Davis, & Acebo, 1991); and ontogenetic changes in the mechanisms of the biological clock.
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- Adolescent Sleep PatternsBiological, Social, and Psychological Influences, pp. 118 - 131Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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