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Sleep and cognitive functioning in childhood: Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex as moderators.

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Philbrook, Lauren E., Hinnant, J. Benjamin, Elmore-Staton, Lori, Buckhalt, Joseph A., El-Sheikh, Mona·2017·Developmental Psychology

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We examined children's sleep at age 9 as a predictor of developmental trajectories of cognitive performance from ages 9 to 11 years. The effects of sleep on cognition are not uniform and thus we tested race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and sex as moderators of these associations. At the first assessment, 282 children aged 9.44 years (52% boys, 65% European American [EA], 35% African American [AA]) participated. Two more waves of data collection spaced 1 year apart followed. The majority of children (63%) were living at or below the poverty line. Children's sleep was measured objectively with actigraphy and 2 well-established sleep parameters were derived: duration, indexed by sleep minutes between sleep onset and wake time, and quality, indexed by efficiency. Multiple cognitive functioning domains were examined with the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ III). Across the sample, higher sleep efficiency, but not duration, was associated with better cognitive performance. Significant moderation effects emerged. Controlling for SES, AA children scored lower on general intellectual ability and working memory (WM) at age 11 only if they experienced lower sleep efficiency at age 9. Further, boys scored lower on general abilities and processing speed (PS) at age 11 only if their sleep efficiency was lower at age 9. Findings indicate that lower sleep efficiency may contribute to lower cognitive functioning especially for AA children and boys. These vulnerabilities appear to emerge early in development and are maintained over time. Results underscore the importance of individual differences in explicating relations between sleep and children's cognitive performance. (PsycINFO Database Record

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  • SES was significantly positively associated with PS throughout all analyses.

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    From Diagnostic Associations of Processing Speed in a Transdiagnostic, Pediatric Sample (2020) · cites this paper as [95]

    The Results > Processing Speed section (page unavailable) identifies child sex and the sleep-efficiency-by-sex interaction as significant predictors of age-11 PS; it does not identify SES as a significant predictor. The Results overview associates lower SES generally with lower BIA and working-memory scores, not PS. These findings run against the claim that SES was significantly positively associated with PS throughout all analyses. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Philbrook, L. E., Hinnant, J. B., Elmore-Staton, L., Buckhalt, J. A., & El-Sheikh, M.
Affiliations
Auburn University (US)
Venue
Developmental Psychology
Published
2017-07
Volume
53
Issue
7
Pages
1276-1285
ISSN
  • 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-0599
OpenAlex
W2605820671
Cited by
52
References
47
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FWCI
7.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL093246)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Keywords
sleep, cognitive function, sleep efficiency, sleep duration, children, developmental trajectories, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sex differences, African American children, working memory, processing speed, intellectual ability, poverty
MeSH terms
Black or African American, Child, Child Development, Cognition, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Poverty, Sex Factors, Sleep, Social Class, White People

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