Maume David J
1University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2013;54(4):498-515. doi: 10.1177/0022146513498512.
Teens tend go to bed later, get less sleep, and report more daytime sleepiness. Medical research emphasizes biological determinants of teens' disrupted sleep (i.e., the timing of puberty and resultant drops in melatonin), rarely or inadequately considering youths' social ties as a determinant of sleep behaviors. Sociologists recognize how social ties affect health behaviors but have generally neglected sleep, especially among teens. Drawing on a sample of 974 teens from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, this study controls for developmental and social relational factors to predict changes in youths' sleep patterns between 12 and 15 years of age. In general, social relational factors outperform developmental factors in determining youths' sleep patterns, particularly pointing to the importance of parental, peer, and school ties in promoting healthy sleep behaviors. The implications of these findings for further research are briefly discussed.
青少年往往晚睡、睡眠不足，且报告称白天更易困倦。医学研究强调青少年睡眠紊乱的生物学决定因素（即青春期的时间以及由此导致的褪黑素下降），很少或没有充分考虑青少年的社会关系作为睡眠行为的一个决定因素。社会学家认识到社会关系如何影响健康行为，但总体上忽视了睡眠，尤其是在青少年中。本研究以来自幼儿保育与青年发展研究的974名青少年为样本，控制了发育和社会关系因素，以预测12至15岁青少年睡眠模式的变化。总体而言，在决定青少年睡眠模式方面，社会关系因素比发育因素表现更优，尤其表明父母、同伴和学校关系在促进健康睡眠行为方面的重要性。这些发现对进一步研究的意义将简要讨论。
