Publications by authors named "Elizabeth J Pantesco"
Higher levels of experiential avoidance are associated with increased risk for depression. Here, we examined the mediating roles of pre-sleep arousal and sleep quality in the relationship between experiential avoidance and depressive symptoms. Undergraduate students ( = 173) completed self-reports of experiential avoidance, pre-sleep arousal, habitual sleep quality, and depressive symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: There are racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration, with members of historically marginalized groups typically reporting shorter sleep than White Americans. This study examines subjective social status (SSS) as a moderator, and variation in ideal sleep norms as a mediator, of differences in sleep duration between racial/ethnic groups.
Methods: Asian, Black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White respondents in an online survey reported their typical weeknight and weekend-night sleep duration, along with estimates of ideal sleep duration norms.
Objectives: Understanding the association between sleep-related beliefs and behaviors may be useful in improving sleep health in the general population. This study examines false beliefs about sleep and their associations with self-reported sleep and related behaviors.
Methods: Respondents in an online survey indicated the degree to which they agreed with 20 statements previously identified as sleep myths by experts in the field.
Objective: This study aimed to examine within-race interactions of multiple dimensions of self-reported discrimination with depressive symptoms in relation to carotid intimal-medial thickness (IMT), a subclinical marker of atherosclerosis prospectively implicated in stroke incidence, in middle-aged to older African American and white adults.
Methods: Participants were a socioeconomically diverse group of 1941 African Americans (56.5%) and whites from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study (30-64 years old, 47% men, 45.
Background: Interpersonal discrimination is linked to greater risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and this association varies by race/ethnicity.
Purpose: To examine whether exposure to everyday discrimination prospectively predicts elevated blood pressure (BP), whether this association differs by race/ethnicity, and is mediated by adiposity indices.
Methods: Using data for 2,180 self-identified White, Black, Chinese, Japanese, and Hispanic participants from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, we examined associations among exposure to (higher vs.
Article Synopsis
- Previous research indicates that experiencing interpersonal discrimination is linked to shorter telomere length, which is associated with aging.
- The study examined how forms of interpersonal discrimination and sociodemographic factors relate to telomere length in African American and White adults aged 30 to 64 in Baltimore.
- Key findings reveal that African American women with a high burden of discrimination and younger adults facing multiple discrimination types had shorter telomeres, while among White men, younger individuals with higher racial discrimination had shorter telomeres, while older men had longer telomeres.
Objectives: To compare estimates of sleep duration defined by polysomnography (PSG), actigraphy, daily diary, and retrospective questionnaire and to identify characteristics associated with differences between measures.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Setting: Community sample.
Cardiovascular risk factors develop in childhood and adolescence. This enumerative review addresses whether sleep characteristics, including sleep duration, continuity, quality, and daytime sleepiness, are associated with cardiovascular risk factors in young people. Thirty-nine studies were identified, which examined the following risk factors: metabolic syndrome, glucose and insulin, lipids, blood pressure, and cardiovascular responses to psychological stressors.
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