Bidirectional relationships between sleep and affect in daily life
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Sleep and affect often are said to have a bidirectional relationship that can lead to either negative or positive results. On this view, when we feel bad before bed, we sleep poorly that night, and when we sleep poorly, we feel worse the next day. In contrast, when we feel good before bed, we sleep well that night, and when we sleep well, we feel better the next day. Despite the widespread currency of this bidirectional view, the empirical literature on bidirectional sleep-affect links in healthy adults is mixed. The aims of this dissertation were to bring conceptual clarity to the question of whether bidirectional links exist between sleep and affect and to test whether observational evidence exists for temporally directional links between specific granular dimensions of sleep and affect. Three projects were conducted to address these aims. The first project proposes a conceptual framework that characterizes associations between sleep and affect by granular, dimensional categories. That framework is then used to organize a systematic review of relevant PubMed articles and identify gaps as well as patterns of converging associations in the literature. The second and third projects address gaps or inconclusive patterns identified by the systematic review. Specifically, the second project examines how naturalistic pre-sleep affect in three different domains -- positive, negative, and arousal -- relates to sleep macro- and micro-architecture during a subsequent night of sleep at home. The third project examines associations from the same three domains of affect before bed to sleep quality and duration that night, and from sleep quality and duration to affect the next morning. Testing for the presence of bidirectional associations in a single model makes it possible to determine whether each temporal direction accounts for independent variance. Taken together, these projects provide a new framework for describing existing findings and testing new hypotheses about sleep-affect links. Finally, the dissertation concludes with a discussion of several factors that could explain the gap between lay intuitions and empirical results as described in the present work and offers promising future research directions to further investigate links between sleep and affect.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | ten Brink, Maia Ilana |
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| Degree supervisor | Gross, James J, (Professor of psychology) |
| Thesis advisor | Gross, James J, (Professor of psychology) |
| Thesis advisor | Manber, Rachel |
| Thesis advisor | Ram, Nilam |
| Thesis advisor | Zaki, Jamil, 1980- |
| Degree committee member | Manber, Rachel |
| Degree committee member | Ram, Nilam |
| Degree committee member | Zaki, Jamil, 1980- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Maia I. ten Brink. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/dc987yp7984 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Maia Ilana ten Brink
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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