Introduction

Sleep disturbances are common among adolescents and are associated with elevated anxiety, and difficulties managing affect. Familial conflict is associated with both anxiety sensitivity and adolescent sleep disturbances. No work to date has examined how adolescent sleep disturbances may interact with anxiety sensitivity in relation to adolescent affective responding to parent-adolescent conflict. The current study was designed to address this gap in the literature by examining how adolescent sleep disturbances, anxiety sensitivity, conflict elicited anger, and conflict avoidance are associated.

Method

Seventy-two American adolescents (n = 39 males) between the ages of 12 and 16 years (M_age = 13.84, SD = 1.38) completed a baseline assessment as well as a well-validated mother-adolescent laboratory-based conflict task.

Results

For youth low in anxiety sensitivity, greater sleep disturbance related positively to conflict-elicited anger, which in turn predicted higher conflict avoidance. In contrast, this indirect effect was not significant for adolescents relatively higher in anxiety sensitivity. Instead, for these adolescents, increased sleep disturbances were associated with lower levels of conflict elicited anger.

Conclusions

Results suggest that the effects of sleep disturbances on conflict elicited anger may vary as a function of adolescent anxiety vulnerability. These findings highlight the importance of considering the unique effects of sleep disturbances on adolescent affect as a function of adolescent anxiety vulnerability.

中文翻译：

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与青少年对父母青少年冲突的愤怒反应相关的睡眠障碍和焦虑敏感性之间的相互作用。

介绍

睡眠障碍在青少年中很常见，并与焦虑加剧和难以控制情绪有关。家庭冲突与焦虑敏感性和青少年睡眠障碍有关。迄今为止，尚未有研究探讨青少年对父母-青少年冲突的情感反应与青少年睡眠障碍之间的关系。本研究旨在通过检查青少年睡眠障碍，焦虑敏感性，冲突引起的愤怒和避免冲突之间的联系来解决文献中的这一空白。

方法

 年龄在12至16岁（M_年龄 = 13.84，SD  = 1.38 ）之间的72名美国青少年（n = 39男性）完成了基线评估以及一项经过充分验证的基于母婴实验室的冲突任务。

结果

对于焦虑敏感度低的年轻人，睡眠障碍的增加与冲突引起的愤怒成正比，反过来这又预示着避免冲突的发生率更高。相反，对于焦虑敏感性相对较高的青少年，这种间接作用并不明显。取而代之的是，对于这些青少年，睡眠障碍的增加与冲突引起愤怒的程度降低有关。

结论

结果表明，睡眠障碍对冲突引起的愤怒的影响可能随青少年焦虑脆弱性而变化。这些发现凸显了考虑睡眠障碍对青少年情感的独特影响作为青少年焦虑脆弱性函数的重要性。