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Socioeconomic Adversity and Women's Sleep: Stress and Chaos as Mediators

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: We examined income-to-needs ratio, perceived economic well-being, and education and their relations with European and African American women's sleep (n = 219). Sleep was examined through actigraphy and self-reports. Income-to-needs ratio was related to sleep minutes. Perceived economic well-being and education were associated with subjective sleep problems. Perceived stress mediated relations between both income-to-needs ratio and economic well-being and subjective sleep problems. Chaos emerged as a mediator linking income-to-needs ratio and subjective sleep problems. African American women had fewer sleep minutes and lower sleep efficiency than European Americans, and more robust relations between economic well-being and stress was observed for European Americans. Findings highlight the importance of economic adversity for women's sleep and explicate some pathways of risk.

Source: Behavioral Sleep Medicine

DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2014.940110

Authors: Mona El-Sheikh, Margaret Keiley, Erika J. Bagley, Edith Chen

Institutions: Auburn University, Muhlenberg College, Northwestern University, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Sleep and related disorders

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, No poverty, Good health and well-being, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute