The interaction between sleep disturbances and anxiety sensitivity in relation to adolescent anger responses to parent adolescent conflict ☆

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ID21444537
AuthorsSarah A Bilsky (0000-0003-3641-0928, Department of Psychology University of Mississippi Oxford MS USA, corresponding author), Hannah P Friedman (Department of Psychology University of Mississippi Oxford MS USA), Ashley Karlovich (0000-0003-3166-5390, Department of Psychological Science University of Arkansas Fayetteville AR USA), Madeleine Smith (Department of Psychological Science University of Arkansas Fayetteville AR USA), Madeleine C Smith (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville), Ellen W Leen‐Feldner (0000-0002-8524-7090, Department of Psychological Science University of Arkansas Fayetteville AR USA)
Year2020
Volume84
Issue1
Pages69-77
Publication date2020-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-1971 • E-ISSN: 1095-9254
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.08.005
PMID32871495
OpenAlexW3082012837
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited71

INTRODUCTION: Sleep disturbances are common among adolescents and are associated with elevated anxiety, and difficulties managing affect. Familial conflict is associated with both anxiety sensitivity and adolescent sleep disturbances. No work to date has examined how adolescent sleep disturbances may interact with anxiety sensitivity in relation to adolescent affective responding to parent-adolescent conflict. The current study was designed to address this gap in the literature by examining how adolescent sleep disturbances, anxiety sensitivity, conflict elicited anger, and conflict avoidance are associated. METHOD: = 13.84, SD = 1.38) completed a baseline assessment as well as a well-validated mother-adolescent laboratory-based conflict task. RESULTS: For youth low in anxiety sensitivity, greater sleep disturbance related positively to conflict-elicited anger, which in turn predicted higher conflict avoidance. In contrast, this indirect effect was not significant for adolescents relatively higher in anxiety sensitivity. Instead, for these adolescents, increased sleep disturbances were associated with lower levels of conflict elicited anger. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that the effects of sleep disturbances on conflict elicited anger may vary as a function of adolescent anxiety vulnerability. These findings highlight the importance of considering the unique effects of sleep disturbances on adolescent affect as a function of adolescent anxiety vulnerability.

Affect (linguistics) · Anger · Anxiety · Anxiety disorder · Anxiety sensitivity · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Vulnerability (computing) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Sleep and related disorders · Sleep and Wakefulness Research

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