@article{ref1,
title="School connectedness and Chinese adolescents' sleep problems: a cross-lagged panel analysis",
journal="Journal of school health",
year="2018",
author="Bao, Zhenzhou and Chen, Chuansheng and Zhang, Wei and Jiang, Yanping and Zhu, Jianjun and Lai, Xuefen",
volume="88",
number="4",
pages="315-321",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Although previous research indicates an association between school connectedness and adolescents' sleep quality, its causal direction has not been determined. This study used a 2-wave cross-lagged panel analysis to explore the likely causal direction between these 2 constructs. <br><br>METHODS: Participants were 888 Chinese adolescents (43.80% boys; M<sub>age</sub>= 15.55) who provided self-report data on school connectedness and sleep quality as well as demographic variables at the beginning and the end of a school year. <br><br>RESULTS: After controlling for sex and age, we found that sleep problems at the beginning of the school year were a significant and negative predictor of school connectedness at the end of the school year (b<sub>2</sub>= -.26, SE =.13, β<sub>2</sub>= -.10, p <.05), but school connectedness at the beginning of the school year did not predict sleep problems at the end of the school year (b<sub>1</sub>=.05, SE =.03, β<sub>1</sub>=.09, p >.05). Separate analyses by sex showed that the above pattern of results was mainly driven by the boys. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrated that sleep problems could be a risk factor for adolescent boys' school connectedness.<br><br>© 2018, American School Health Association.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4391",
doi="10.1111/josh.12608",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josh.12608"
}