Daily Family Connection and Objective Sleep in Latinx Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Familism Values and Family Com
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EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
Daily Family Connection and Objective Sleep in Latinx Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Familism Values and Family Communication Jeri Sasser
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Emma K. Lecarie1,2 HyeJung Park1,2 Leah D. Doane1,2 ●
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Received: 22 July 2020 / Accepted: 23 September 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Spending time with family (“family connection”) is a salient aspect of adolescents’ daily lives linked with healthy sleep. Less is known regarding the unique effects of parent and sibling connection on sleep. This study examined daily and average associations between parent/sibling connection and objective sleep (duration, efficiency) in a sample of Latinx adolescents (N = 195; Mage = 18.11, SD = 0.41; 65.6% female) and explored familism values and family communication as moderators. Adolescents slept longer on days that they spent more time with siblings, and youth who typically spent more time with parents had longer sleep durations. Family communication and familism-obligation moderated associations between family connection and sleep. These results provide support for the role of family interactions in promoting healthy sleep among Latinx adolescents. Keywords
Sleep Adolescence Latinx Siblings Family Connection Familism ●
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Introduction Sleep is essential for day-to-day functioning and has been linked to a wide range of competencies in adolescence, including improved psychological well-being, better academic performance, and enhanced emotion regulation (Baum et al. 2014; Shochat et al. 2014). Sleep patterns shift markedly during adolescence, starting with biological changes in early adolescence (i.e., phasic shift in the circadian pattern; Owens and Adolescent Sleep Working Group 2014) and continue to vary in late adolescence as youth become more autonomous and balance social and academic responsibilities (Becker et al. 2015). Sleep problems may be particularly pronounced during late adolescence, with previous studies observing declines in both sleep duration (i.e., total time spent asleep) and sleep efficiency (i.e., percentage of time in bed actually spent sleeping) as youth near the end of high school (Maslowsky and Ozer 2014; Park et al. 2019). Recent literature
* Jeri Sasser [email protected] 1
Adolescent Stress and Emotion Lab, Tempe, AZ, USA
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Arizona State University, Department of Psychology, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA
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emphasizes the need for more research examining various aspects of daily family life that can promote youth wellbeing, including sleep (Buehler 2020). Whereas negative aspects of family functioning (e.g., adverse parenting) have been associated with sleep problems in adolescence (Turner et al. 2020), positive aspects of family functioning (e.g., parental support) have shown more beneficial effects on sleep (Fuligni et al. 2015). However, most existing evidence is limited to between-person associations of family processes and sleep (e.g., Bartel et al. 2015), and less is known regardin
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