Sosnowski David W, Kliewer Wendy, Lepore Stephen J
Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, PO Box 842018, Richmond, VA, 23284-2018, USA.
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave., Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2016 Sep;45(9):1744-54. doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0506-2. Epub 2016 May 23.
Victimization is linked to externalizing outcomes in adolescents and recent theorizing suggests that sleep plays a role in this relationship; however, there is little evidence examining sleep as a mediator. This study examines associations between victimization experiences and changes in aggression, delinquency, and drug use. Data were obtained from three waves of a school-based study with middle-school youth (n = 785; 55 % female; 20 % African American; M = 12.32, SD = .51 years at T1), and path analyses were used to test the key hypotheses. Analyses controlling for major life events, demographic factors, and school site revealed that victimization indirectly affected delinquency and drug use, but not aggression, through its relationship with sleep problems. Further, the effects of sleep problems on drug use were specific to females. These data suggest that intervening to address sleep problems resulting from victimization may serve to reduce some forms of externalizing behavior.
受欺负与青少年的外化问题相关，最近的理论认为睡眠在这种关系中起作用；然而，几乎没有证据将睡眠视为一种中介因素进行研究。本研究考察了受欺负经历与攻击行为、犯罪行为及药物使用变化之间的关联。数据来自一项针对中学生的校本研究的三个阶段（n = 785；55%为女性；20%为非裔美国人；T1时年龄M = 12.32岁，SD = 0.51岁），并采用路径分析来检验关键假设。控制了重大生活事件、人口统计学因素和学校地点的分析表明，受欺负通过与睡眠问题的关系间接影响犯罪行为和药物使用，但不影响攻击行为。此外，睡眠问题对药物使用的影响在女性中具有特异性。这些数据表明，干预解决因受欺负导致的睡眠问题可能有助于减少某些形式的外化行为。
