Howard University Department of Psychology, Washington D.C. United States.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
Behav Sleep Med. 2023 Mar-Apr;21(2):142-149. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2022.2057986. Epub 2022 Apr 1.
Poor sleep is common in our society, particularly for African Americans, and is associated with adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Unwanted, intrusive thoughts contribute to sleep disturbances and can be engendered by living in stressful urban environments, which are disproportionately inhabited by African Americans. Studies of other populations have shown that cognitive coping strategies to manage intrusive thoughts vary in their adaptiveness.
To examine the relationship between thought control strategies and insomnia severity in urban residing young-adult African Americans.
Sixty-four young adult African Americans completed a demographic questionnaire, the Thought Control Questionnaire for Insomnia-revised, and the Insomnia Severity Index.
There were moderate to strong positive correlations of aggressive suppression, worry, behavioral distraction, and social avoidance with ISI scores. Poor sleepers endorsed greater use of worry and aggressive suppression than good sleepers. Results from a multiple linear regression analysis revealed that aggressive suppression, social avoidance, and behavioral distraction significantly predicted insomnia severity, and aggressive suppression was the strongest predictor in the model.
These results extend findings of aggressive suppression as a correlate of insomnia severity to an urban-residing young adult African American sample. Future research should identify adaptive approaches and the utility of modifying maladaptive strategies.
在我们的社会中，睡眠质量差很常见，尤其是非裔美国人，而且与不良的身心健康结果有关。不需要的、侵入性的想法会导致睡眠障碍，并且可能是由于生活在压力大的城市环境中引起的，而这种环境是非裔美国人不成比例地居住的。对其他人群的研究表明，管理侵入性想法的认知应对策略在适应性方面存在差异。
研究城市居住的年轻非裔美国成年人的思维控制策略与失眠严重程度之间的关系。
64 名年轻的非裔美国成年人完成了人口统计问卷、改良的失眠思维控制问卷和失眠严重程度指数。
攻击性抑制、担忧、行为分心和社交回避与 ISI 评分呈中度至强正相关。睡眠质量差的人比睡眠质量好的人更倾向于使用担忧和攻击性抑制。多元线性回归分析的结果表明，攻击性抑制、社交回避和行为分心显著预测了失眠严重程度，而攻击性抑制是模型中最强的预测因素。
这些结果将攻击性抑制作为失眠严重程度的相关因素扩展到了城市居住的年轻非裔美国成年人样本中。未来的研究应该确定适应性方法和修改适应不良策略的效用。
