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
1 - Sleep and Adolescence: A Social Psychologist's Perspective
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
My immediate reaction to reading the chapters in this book is shame. Generations of researchers have studied the psychological and social lives of adolescents, and their main tools have been time-use studies. Among numerous examples, how much time each day or week does the adolescent spend watching television, hanging out with friends, or engaging in extracurricular activities? What is the relation of such time expenditures to measures of academic performance, deviance, or other indicators of adolescent functioning?
The emphasis has been completely on the waking hours, and this book impressively underscores the importance of hours spent sleeping. An undergraduate friend, with whom I had discussed some of the findings in various chapters, immediately provided a real-life illustration of the interaction between the physiological imperatives of sleep and the social perceptions by which we structure our lives. She had been accustomed to staying up very late and sleepily forcing herself to attend her morning classes. In general, she found Stanford professors boring. Now she is getting more sleep and finding her teachers more interesting.
A constant theme of life in society is determining the causes of the phenomena we perceive. Often, there is a choice to be made between internal causes and external causes. For example, I was once feeling sick in Guatemala City and, feeling dizzy, I decided that I was even sicker than I had believed. I was one of the few persons who was relieved to discover that I was experiencing a minor earthquake.
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- Adolescent Sleep PatternsBiological, Social, and Psychological Influences, pp. 1 - 3Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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