Publications by authors named "Adrielle Massey"
Article Synopsis
- Sleep loss negatively affects social motivation and positive emotions in healthy young adults, with participants who had restricted sleep showing less desire to connect with others.
- In an experiment, those who slept only 4 hours reported reduced feelings of gratitude and connectedness after reflecting on positive social experiences compared to those who slept for 8 hours.
- The study highlights a gap in research on how sleep influences social connections, suggesting that partial sleep restriction can diminish the quality of social interactions and emotional well-being.
Purpose: Ongoing stress can result in sleep disturbances and daytime socioemotional difficulties. Data on how sleep and daytime socioemotional functioning may be bidirectionally related to one another in the midst of an ongoing stressor are limited, particularly during adolescence, a developmental period when risk for the onset of mental health difficulties and sleep disturbances is high.
Methods: Participants (N = 459, ages of 13-18 years) were recruited from across the United States and completed an intake survey and one week of daily reports beginning 2 weeks after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency.