Spencer A Nielson, Julia T Boyle, Joseph M Dzierzewski
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Abstract
Objectives: The present study evaluated associations among sleep health, insomnia symptoms, and loneliness across the adult lifespan.
Methods: Adults ages 19-99 (N = 2297, Mage = 44 years) completed an online RU-SATED sleep health questionnaire, Insomnia Severity Index, and Gierveld Loneliness scale (measuring total, social and emotional loneliness). Direct associations among sleep health, insomnia symptoms, and loneliness were examined. Moderation analyses investigated whether associations between sleep health, insomnia symptoms, and loneliness differed by age.
Results: Better sleep health and younger age were associated with lower loneliness total and subscale scores. Greater insomnia symptoms and older age were associated with higher loneliness total and subscale scores (p's < .05). Age moderated associations between sleep health and total and emotional loneliness (b = 0.01, t = 2.63, p = .009; b = 0.04, t = 3.15, p = .002) and between insomnia symptoms and total and emotional loneliness scores (b = -0.002, t = -2.30, p = .02; b = -0.002, t = -2.88, p = .004), such that the associations were strongest in younger adults compared to other ages.
Conclusions: Younger adults may experience more benefits of better sleep health on loneliness compared to older adults. Insomnia symptoms were associated with loneliness across the lifespan but were less pronounced among older adults. It may be worth exploring how promoting sleep health might assist in reducing loneliness across the adult lifespan.
目的：本研究评估成人一生中睡眠健康、失眠症状和孤独感之间的关系。方法：年龄19-99岁的成年人（N = 2297，年龄44岁）完成在线睡眠健康问卷、失眠严重程度指数和Gierveld孤独感量表（测量总孤独感、社交孤独感和情感孤独感）。研究人员研究了睡眠健康、失眠症状和孤独感之间的直接联系。适度分析调查了睡眠健康、失眠症状和孤独感之间的关联是否因年龄而异。结果：较好的睡眠健康和较年轻的年龄与较低的孤独感总分和亚量表得分相关。失眠症状越严重，年龄越大，孤独感总分和分量表得分越高(p's b = 0.01, t = 2.63, p = 0.009；B = 0.04, t = 3.15, p = 0.002)，失眠症状与总孤独感和情绪孤独感评分之间的差异(B = -0.002, t = -2.30, p = 0.02；B = -0.002, t = -2.88, p = .004)，因此与其他年龄段相比，年轻人的相关性最强。结论：与老年人相比，年轻人可能会体验到更好的睡眠健康对孤独感的好处。失眠症状与一生中的孤独感有关，但在老年人中不那么明显。促进睡眠健康如何有助于减少成年人一生中的孤独感，这可能值得探索。
期刊介绍：
Behavioral Sleep Medicine addresses behavioral dimensions of normal and abnormal sleep mechanisms and the prevention, assessment, and treatment of sleep disorders and associated behavioral and emotional problems. Standards for interventions acceptable to this journal are guided by established principles of behavior change. Intending to serve as the intellectual home for the application of behavioral/cognitive science to the study of normal and disordered sleep, the journal paints a broad stroke across the behavioral sleep medicine landscape. Its content includes scholarly investigation of such areas as normal sleep experience, insomnia, the relation of daytime functioning to sleep, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, treatment adherence, pediatrics, and geriatrics. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. The journal’ domain encompasses human basic, applied, and clinical outcome research. Behavioral Sleep Medicine also embraces methodological diversity, spanning innovative case studies, quasi-experimentation, randomized trials, epidemiology, and critical reviews.
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