El-Sheikh Mona, Kelly Ryan J, Koss Kalsea J, Rauer Amy J
Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Department of Individual, Family, and Community Education, University of New Mexico.
J Fam Psychol. 2015 Jun;29(3):349-59. doi: 10.1037/fam0000083. Epub 2015 Apr 27.
We examined longitudinal relations between interpartner constructive (negotiation) and destructive (psychological and physical aggression) conflict strategies and couples' sleep over 1 year. Toward explicating processes of effects, we assessed the intervening role of internalizing symptoms in associations between conflict tactics and couples' sleep. Participants were 135 cohabiting couples (M age = 37 years for women and 39 years for men). The sample included a large representation of couples exposed to economic adversity. Further, 68% were European American and the remainder were primarily African American. At Time 1 (T1), couples reported on their conflict and their mental health (depression, anxiety). At T1 and Time 2, sleep was examined objectively with actigraphs for 7 nights. Three sleep parameters were derived: efficiency, minutes, and latency. Actor-partner interdependence models indicated that husbands' use of constructive conflict forecasted increases in their own sleep efficiency as well as their own and their wives' sleep duration over time. Actor and partner effects emerged, and husbands' and wives' use of destructive conflict strategies generally predicted worsening of some sleep parameters over time. Several mediation and intervening effects were observed for destructive conflict strategies. Some of these relations reveal that destructive conflict is associated with internalizing symptoms, which in turn are associated with some sleep parameters longitudinally. These findings build on a small, albeit growing, literature linking sleep with marital functioning, and illustrate that consideration of relationship processes including constructive conflict holds promise for gaining a better understanding of factors that influence the sleep of men and women.
我们研究了伴侣间建设性（协商）和破坏性（心理及身体攻击）冲突策略与夫妻一年睡眠情况之间的纵向关系。为了阐明影响过程，我们评估了内化症状在冲突策略与夫妻睡眠关联中的中介作用。研究对象为135对同居伴侣（女性平均年龄37岁，男性平均年龄39岁）。样本中包含大量面临经济困境的伴侣。此外，68%为欧裔美国人，其余主要是非裔美国人。在时间1（T1），伴侣们报告了他们的冲突情况及心理健康状况（抑郁、焦虑）。在T1和时间2，使用活动记录仪客观测量睡眠情况，为期7晚。得出了三个睡眠参数：效率、时长和潜伏期。行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型表明，丈夫使用建设性冲突预测随着时间推移，他们自己的睡眠效率以及他们自己和妻子的睡眠时间会增加。出现了行为者和伴侣效应，丈夫和妻子使用破坏性冲突策略通常预测随着时间推移某些睡眠参数会变差。观察到了破坏性冲突策略的几种中介和干预效应。其中一些关系表明，破坏性冲突与内化症状有关，而内化症状反过来又与一些睡眠参数存在纵向关联。这些发现建立在虽少但不断增加的将睡眠与婚姻功能联系起来的文献基础上，并表明考虑包括建设性冲突在内的关系过程有望更好地理解影响男性和女性睡眠的因素。
