Citation

Tomaso CC, Nelson JM, Espy KA, Nelson TD. J. Health Psychol. 2018; ePub(ePub): 1359105318801065.

Affiliation

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105318801065

PMID

30253672

Abstract

Research has examined the impact of poor sleep on executive control and related abilities, but the inverse relationship has received less attention. Youth completed objective executive control tasks in childhood ( N = 208; M_age = 10.03; 50.5% girls) and self-report measures of sleep-wake problems and daytime sleepiness in early adolescence ( M_age = 12.00). Poorer interference suppression and flexible shifting abilities both predicted sleep-wake problems, but response inhibition and working memory did not. For daytime sleepiness, interference suppression was the only significant predictor among executive control components. Socioeconomic status did not moderate any of these associations.

FINDINGS have implications for targeting specific executive control abilities in childhood to improve sleep outcomes later in development.

Language: en

Keywords

early adolescence; executive control; interference suppression; intervention; pediatric sleep