Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Adolescent Sleep Patterns
- 1 Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
- 2 Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
- 3 Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence
- 4 Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent
- 5 Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys
- 6 Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep
- 7 Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
- 8 Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
- 9 Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 10 What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us about Adolescent Sleep?
- 11 Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents within Current Educational Structures: An Uncharted Path
- 12 Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look Like in the 21st Century?
- 13 Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior
- 14 Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective
- 15 The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance
- 16 The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
- Index
- References
2 - Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Adolescent Sleep Patterns
- 1 Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
- 2 Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents
- 3 Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence
- 4 Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent
- 5 Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys
- 6 Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep
- 7 Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil
- 8 Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: An Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample
- 9 Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 10 What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us about Adolescent Sleep?
- 11 Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents within Current Educational Structures: An Uncharted Path
- 12 Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look Like in the 21st Century?
- 13 Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior
- 14 Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective
- 15 The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance
- 16 The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations
- Index
- References
Summary
How I hated her method of waking me. My adolescent sleeps were long, dark and sullen. Never once in all those years did I wake of my own accord. It was Margaret, always, knocking on my door like some rodent trapped behind a wall. This would bring me to a rage of wakefulness and I would stomp into the bathroom, bad-tempered and clearly in the wrong, while Margaret, who had been up and gone to six o'clock Mass, would watch me with a silent and superior reproach. That would increase my fury; it is impossible to feel the equal of someone who's been awake longer than you.
Mary Gordon, Final PaymentsSleep patterns in humans emerge from a complex interplay of several distinct processes: maturation and development, behavioral phenomena, and intrinsic sleep and circadian regulatory mechanisms. Each factor likely plays an important role during the transition from childhood to adulthood, a time when significant changes in sleep patterns occur. Sleep also affects many facets of waking human life, although a definitive explanation of sleep's function(s) remains undiscovered. Unquestioned, however, is the obligatory nature of sleep and our commonsense intuition that sleep fulfills some vital role in our waking lives, a role that enhances our abilities to think, perform, feel, and interact.
The patterns of sleep that unfold during adolescence differ markedly from those of preadolescents. Our sense is that many adolescents in the United States obtain insufficient and ill-timed sleep and that daytime functioning suffers as a consequence.
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- Adolescent Sleep PatternsBiological, Social, and Psychological Influences, pp. 4 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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