TY - JOUR
T1 - Socioeconomic Adversity and Women's Sleep
T2 - Stress and Chaos as Mediators
AU - El-Sheikh, Mona
AU - Keiley, Margaret
AU - Bagley, Erika J.
AU - Chen, Edith
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by Grant Number R01HL093246 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, awarded to Mona El-Sheikh. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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PY - 2015/11/2
Y1 - 2015/11/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/15402002.2014.940110
DO - 10.1080/15402002.2014.940110
M3 - Article
C2 - 25115947
AN - SCOPUS:84943452038
SN - 1540-2002
VL - 13
SP - 506
EP - 523
JO - Behavioral Sleep Medicine
JF - Behavioral Sleep Medicine
IS - 6
ER -