Rumination Is Associated With Angry and Depressed Mood and Sleep Quality

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Thomsen ◽  
M. Y. Mehlsen ◽  
S. Christensen ◽  
R. Zachariae
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Author(s):  
Serena Malloggi ◽  
Francesca Conte ◽  
Giorgio Gronchi ◽  
Gianluca Ficca ◽  
Fiorenza Giganti

Although sleep problems at young ages are well investigated, the prevalence of bad sleepers and the determinants of sleep quality perception remain unexplored in these populations. For this purpose, we addressed these issues in a sample of children (n = 307), preadolescents (n = 717), and adolescents (n = 406) who completed the School Sleep Habits Survey, addressing sleep quality perception, sleep habits, sleep features, daytime behavior and sleep disturbances, circadian preference, and dreaming. The sample was split in “good sleepers” and “bad sleepers”, based on the answer to the question item assessing overall subjective sleep quality. Being a bad sleeper was reported by 11.7% of the sample, with significant between-groups differences (children: 8.3%; preadolescents: 11.3%; adolescents: 15.3%; p = 0.01). At all ages, relative to good sleepers, bad sleepers showed higher eveningness, sleepiness, and depression, longer sleep latency, more frequent insufficient sleep, nocturnal awakenings, sleep–wake behavioral problems, and unpleasant dreams (all p’s ≤ 0.01). Sleep quality perception was predicted: in children, by depressed mood, eveningness, and unpleasant dreams (all p’s ≤ 0.01); in preadolescents, by sleep latency, awakening frequency, depressed mood, sufficiency of sleep, and unpleasant dreams (all p’s < 0.01); in adolescents, by awakening frequency, depressed mood, and sufficiency of sleep (all p’s < 0.001). In children, bad subjective sleep quality appears to be mainly determined by daytime psychological features, for example, depressed mood, whereas at later ages, sleep characteristics, such as frequent awakenings, add to the former determinants. This could depend on (a) the appearance, with increasing age, of objective sleep modifications and (b) a greater attention paid by adolescents to their sleep characteristics.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 583-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weizhen Xie ◽  
Anne Berry ◽  
Cindy Lustig ◽  
Patricia Deldin ◽  
Weiwei Zhang

AbstractObjectives:Reduction in the amount of information (storage capacity) retained in working memory (WM) has been associated with sleep loss. The present study examined whether reduced WM capacity is also related to poor everyday sleep quality and, more importantly, whether the effects of sleep quality could be dissociated from the effects of depressed mood and age on WM.Methods:In two studies, WM was assessed using a short-term recall task, producing behavioral measures for both the amount of retained WM information (capacity) and how precise the retained WM representations were (precision). Self-report measures of sleep quality and depressed mood were obtained using questionnaires.Results:In a sample of college students, Study 1 found that poor sleep quality and depressed mood could independently predict reduced WM capacity, but not WM precision. Study 2 generalized these sleep- and mood-related WM capacity effects to a community sample (aged 21–77 years) and further showed that age was associated with reduced WM precision.Conclusions:Together, these findings demonstrate dissociable effects of three health-related factors (sleep, mood, and age) on WM representations and highlighte the importance of assessing different aspects of WM representations (e.g., capacity and precision) in future neuropsychological research.


2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Zawadzki ◽  
Jennifer E. Graham ◽  
William Gerin

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 183449092110526
Author(s):  
Ran Xu ◽  
Yao Lin ◽  
Baoshan Zhang

Sleep quality and perceived social support (PSS) are acknowledged to play indispensable roles in enhancing the adaptation of later life and improving the health condition and well-being of older adults. Both have received widespread attention from researchers. Some researchers have begun focusing on physical factors or health-related behaviors, such as sleep, that have significant effects on PSS. Good sleep quality has been widely established to be significantly associated with a high level of PSS. However, research on the temporal effects of sleep quality on PSS is limited, and the potential health mechanisms of the relationship between sleep quality and PSS in older adults are mixed. This study aims to investigate the temporal relationship between sleep quality and PSS, including the mediating role of depressed mood in the relationship between sleep quality and PSS in older adults. A total of 281 older adults completed the self-reported questionnaires assessing sleep quality, PSS, and depressed mood at three time-points: at intake, a 6-month follow-up, and a 12-month follow-up. Cross-lagged panel analysis using structural equation modeling indicated that sleep quality at Times 1 and 2 positively predicated PSS at Times 2 and 3, respectively. In addition, the longitudinal mediation analysis showed that depressed mood mediated the effect of sleep quality on PSS. The study found that sleep quality influences PSS through depressed mood in older adults, which enriched the theoretical basis of the field. Findings also offer some practical implications. Particularly for community practitioners, the current findings suggest that improving sleep quality can be a strategy for improving psychological health and social functioning (e.g., PSS) in older adults.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 965-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajni Banthia ◽  
Vanessa L. Malcarne ◽  
Celine M. Ko ◽  
James W. Varni ◽  
Georgia Robins Sadler

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Li ◽  
Afton Kechter ◽  
Richard E. Olmstead ◽  
Michael R. Irwin ◽  
David S. Black

ABSTRACTThe aim of this analysis was to test if changes in insomnia symptoms and global sleep quality are associated with coinciding changes in depressed mood among older adults. We report on results yielded from secondary analysis of longitudinal data from a clinical trial of older adults (N = 49) aged 55 to 80 years who reported at least moderate levels of sleep problems. All measures were collected at baseline and after the trial ten weeks later. We computed change scores for two separate measures of disturbed sleep, the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and tested their association with change in depressed mood (Beck Depression Inventory-II; BDI-II) in two separate linear regression models adjusted for biological covariates related to sleep (sex, age, body mass index, and NF-κB as a biological marker previously correlated with insomnia and depression). Change in AIS scores was associated with change in BDI-II scores (β = 0.38, p < 0.01). Change in PSQI scores was not significantly associated with change in BDI-II scores (β = 0.17, p = 0.26). Our findings suggest that improvements over ten weeks in insomnia symptoms rather than global sleep quality coincide with improvement in depressed mood among older adults.


SLEEP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. A70-A71
Author(s):  
Carmela Alcantara ◽  
Luciana Giorgio ◽  
Sarah Diaz ◽  
Melanie Morris ◽  
Yun He ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction While psychological stress is adversely linked to sleep, the bidirectional and temporal relationships between sleep and psychological stress in the context of daily life are largely understudied, particularly among Latinxs. We examined the bidirectional relationships between daily sleep duration, sleep quality, perceived stress, and negative mood in Latinx adults. Methods Between 2016-2019, healthy Latinxs (N=42), defined as those without any major physical or psychiatric morbidities, and free from polysomnography-assessed sleep disorders, were recruited from a community sample in New York. Participants naïve to study hypotheses completed 40 consecutive days of actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment of psychological stress and negative mood (depressed, anxious mood) using a 0 (not at all) to 10 (extremely) scale, contributing 1713 observations. Daily sleep duration was measured via wrist-actigraphy, and perceived daily sleep quality (1[very bad] to 4[very good]) was assessed via morning self-report. Sources of daily stress, including sociocultural stress, were collected once each evening. Multi-level modeling was used to examine within-person effects and temporal associations with adjustment for day of the week. Results Mean age=37.2 (SD=11.8), 69.1% women, 36.6% unemployed, 64.3% immigrant, and 38.1% Spanish-speaking. Non-specific stress (43%), work (28%), and family/relationship (21%) stress were the most common sources of daily stress. Discrimination and immigration stress were rarely reported as daily sources of stress (1.2%). Mean nightly sleep duration was 403.9 minutes (±81.3). Preliminary lagged linear mixed models indicated that a 60-minute increase in sleep duration during the night predicted a -.12 change in stress ratings (SE=.001,p&lt;.0001) the next day, as well as -.06 change in anxious mood (SE=.001,p=.003). Better perceived sleep quality on a 4-point scale during the night predicted lower stress ratings (ß=-.11,SE=.05,p=.04) and less anxious mood (ß=-.13,SE=.05,p=.01) the next day. A one-point higher rating of depressed mood during the day predicted a -.03 decrease in perceived sleep quality that night (SE=.01,p&lt;.05). Conclusion Overall, these results imply distinct associations of sleep with both anxiety and depressed mood. Longer sleep duration and improved perceived sleep quality were associated with subsequent decreased stress and anxiety. Increased depressed mood predicted worse sleep quality that night. Future research should identify the mechanisms of action for these differential associations. Support (if any):


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