Sleep quality in healthy and mood-disordered persons predicts daily life emotional reactivity
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Kimberly O'Learya, Brent J. Smallb, Vanessa Panaitea, Lauren M. Bylsmac & Jonathan Rottenberga*a Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USAb School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USAc Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USACONTACT Jonathan Rottenberg rottenberg@usf.eduABSTRACTDisordered sleep has been linked to impaired emotional functioning in healthy and depressed individuals. Little is known, however, about how chronic sleep problems influence emotional reactivity in everyday life. Participants with major or minor unipolar depressive disorder (n = 60) and healthy controls (n = 35) reported on sleep and emotional responses to daily life events using a computerised Experience Sampling Method. We examined whether impaired sleep quality influenced emotional reactivity to daily events, and if this relationship was altered by unipolar mood disorders. Among healthy individuals, sleep difficulties were associated with enhanced negative affect (NA) to unpleasant events and a dulled response to neutral events. However, among mood-disordered persons, sleep difficulties were associated with higher NA across all types of everyday life events. Impaired sleep quality differentially affects daily life emotional reactions as a function of depression.
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Depression was associated with lower perceived sleep quality, which in turn affected negative emotional reactivity to both neutral and unpleasant events during the day.
“Through the daily administration of morning self-reports about sleep patterns, O’Leary et al. found that depression was associated with lower perceived sleep quality, which in turn affected negative emotional reactivity to both neutral and unpleasant events during the day [47].”
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- Authors
- O'Leary, K., Small, B. J., Panaite, V., Bylsma, L. M., & Rottenberg, J.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
- University of South Florida (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rottenberg, Jonathan
- Venue
- Cognition and Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-01-12
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 435-443
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- PMC
- PMC5603277
- OpenAlex
- W2236024408
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 5.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH77669)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Keywords
- sleep quality, sleep disorders, emotional reactivity, daily life events, major depressive disorder, mood disorders, negative affect, ecological momentary assessment
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Female, Humans, Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders, Male, Models, Psychological, Case-Control Studies, Young Adult
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