Childhood trauma and gender: Synergistic and additive effects on sleep in healthy young adults.

Objectives: To examine whether gender moderates the effects of childhood trauma on subjective and objective sleep measures.

Design: Secondary data analysis, exploratory SETTINGS: Sleep research lab PARTICIPANTS: A total of 213 men and 278 women aged 18-30 completed subjective measures. A subsample of 172 participants without any psychiatric, medical, or sleep disorders completed objective polysomnography for 1 night at baseline, before sleep manipulation.