Sleeping through the ages: Developmental trajectories of actigraphy-derived sleep-wake patterns across adolescence and emerging adulthood.

IF 2.7 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-09 DOI:10.1037/dev0002170

Morgan J Thompson, Zeynep Su Altinoz, Alexandra D Ehrhardt, J Benjamin Hinnant, Stephen A Erath, Joseph A Buckhalt, Mona El-Sheikh

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Sleep is a fundamental domain of development and has important implications for other key aspects of adaptation. Little is known about normative changes in sleep across adolescence and emerging adulthood and whether the change is linear or nonlinear. We examined growth trajectories of sleep across 9 years of development and individual differences in trajectories according to participants' race/ethnicity and sex assigned at birth. During each wave, we measured four key actigraphy-derived sleep parameters over 1 week, including duration (number of minutes spent asleep), efficiency (percentage of time scored as sleep), midpoint (preferences for morningness-eveningness), and consistency/variability in duration (night-to-night fluctuations in duration over 1 week). Participants (N = 295, 53% female, 69% European American/White, 30% African American/Black, and 1% biracial) from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds completed five waves of data (M_ages at each wave: 15, 16, 17, 22, and 24). We observed a cubic trajectory for sleep duration whereby sleep duration declined across adolescence, increased into emerging adulthood, and declined again from 22 to 24. Consistency/variability in sleep duration also exhibited a cubic trajectory. Nightly fluctuations in sleep duration decreased from 15 to 16, increased from 16 to 22, and decreased again from 22 to 24. We found a quadratic trajectory for sleep midpoint, indicating a progressively greater preference for eveningness. Sleep efficiency exhibited linear growth and improved over time. Differences in trajectories for sleep duration and sleep efficiency emerged based on participants' race and sex. Findings indicated significant changes in the developmental trajectories of four sleep parameters across adolescence and emerging adulthood and underscore the importance of nonlinear assessments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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睡眠的年龄：活动记录仪衍生的睡眠-觉醒模式的发展轨迹在青春期和成年初期。

睡眠是发育的一个基本领域，对适应的其他关键方面有着重要的影响。人们对青春期和成年初期睡眠的规范变化知之甚少，也不知道这种变化是线性的还是非线性的。我们根据参与者的种族/民族和出生时的性别，研究了9年发育过程中的睡眠增长轨迹和轨迹的个体差异。在每一波中，我们在一周内测量了四个关键的由活动仪衍生的睡眠参数，包括持续时间（睡眠分钟数）、效率（得分为睡眠的时间百分比）、中点（偏好早睡晚睡）和持续时间的一致性/可变性（持续时间在一周内的夜间波动）。来自不同社会经济背景的参与者（N = 295, 53%为女性，69%为欧洲裔美国人/白人，30%为非洲裔美国人/黑人，1%为混血儿）完成了五波数据（每波的图像：15,16,17,22和24）。我们观察到睡眠时间的立方轨迹，即睡眠时间在青春期下降，在成年初期增加，从22岁到24岁再次下降。睡眠持续时间的一致性/可变性也表现出立方轨迹。每晚睡眠时间波动从15下降到16，从16上升到22，再从22下降到24。我们发现睡眠中点呈二次曲线，表明人们越来越喜欢晚上睡觉。睡眠效率呈线性增长，并随着时间的推移而提高。睡眠持续时间和睡眠效率轨迹的差异基于参与者的种族和性别。研究结果表明，在青春期和成年初期，四个睡眠参数的发展轨迹发生了重大变化，并强调了非线性评估的重要性。（PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2026 APA，版权所有）。

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Developmental Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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5.80

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2.50%

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329

期刊介绍： Developmental Psychology ® publishes articles that significantly advance knowledge and theory about development across the life span. The journal focuses on seminal empirical contributions. The journal occasionally publishes exceptionally strong scholarly reviews and theoretical or methodological articles. Studies of any aspect of psychological development are appropriate, as are studies of the biological, social, and cultural factors that affect development. The journal welcomes not only laboratory-based experimental studies but studies employing other rigorous methodologies, such as ethnographies, field research, and secondary analyses of large data sets. We especially seek submissions in new areas of inquiry and submissions that will address contradictory findings or controversies in the field as well as the generalizability of extant findings in new populations. Although most articles in this journal address human development, studies of other species are appropriate if they have important implications for human development. Submissions can consist of single manuscripts, proposed sections, or short reports.