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
8 - Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
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
The developmental changes occurring during adolescence include psychological as well as organic factors and their nature and rapidity are striking. Modifications in sleeping patterns with chronologic age have been well documented and have been related to greater social pressures, as well as normal ontogenetic trends. Several studies have suggested that adolescents, despite an increasing physiological need for sleep, tend to sleep less with age (Simonds & Parrega, 1982; Carskadon, 1990a; Andrade, Benedito-Silva, Domenice, Amhold, & Menna-Barreto, 1993). The sleep-wake cycle tends to become delayed, and many adolescents may experience sleep phase delay syndrome with insufficient sleep (Carskadon, Vieira, & Acebo, 1993). The consequences of chronic insufficient sleep are numerous: daytime sleepiness, mood and behavioral problems, negative effects on daytime functions such as poor school achievement, greater risk of severe accidents, and increased vulnerability to psychoactive substance abuse. Furthermore, in adolescent years expanding social opportunities, including academic demands, changing parent-child relationship, and changing life habits, may also affect the development of adolescent sleep patterns.
Despite the fact that very few epidemiological studies comparing sleep habits in different countries have been conducted, it has been hypothesized that ethnic and sociocultural factors may influence sleep patterns and habits, too (Strauch & Meier, 1988). Although the importance of healthy sleeping habits in this age group has been pointed out in other countries, this topic has not received adequate interest in Italy.
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- Adolescent Sleep PatternsBiological, Social, and Psychological Influences, pp. 132 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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