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. 2023 Jan 20;13(2):178.
doi: 10.3390/brainsci13020178.

The Association between Sleep Patterns, Educational Identity, and School Performance in Adolescents

Valeria Bacaro  1 , Alice Andreose  1 , Martina Grimaldi  1 , Vincenzo Natale  1 , Lorenzo Tonetti  1 , Elisabetta Crocetti  1
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The Association between Sleep Patterns, Educational Identity, and School Performance in Adolescents

Valeria Bacaro et al. Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Adolescents' school experience can be developmentally related to adolescents' sleep. This study aimed to understand how sleep patterns (i.e., sleep duration and sleep-schedule) and weekend sleep-recovery strategies (i.e., social jetlag and weekend catch-up sleep) are associated with adolescents' school experience (i.e., educational identity and school performance). Moreover, the differences in the school experiences between adolescents with different numbers of weekend-sleep-recovery strategies were assessed. For this purpose, 542 Italian adolescents (55.2% females, mean age 15.6 years) wore an actigraph for one week. After the actigraphic assessment, questionnaires on educational identity and school performance were administered. Results showed that short sleep-duration, later bedtime during weekdays and weekends, and a higher amount of social jetlag were negatively associated with school performance. Furthermore, adolescents who did not use any sleep-recovery strategy during the weekend presented lower levels of educational in-depth exploration compared to adolescents with higher levels of catch-up sleep but not social jetlag. These data pointed out a potentially detrimental role of social jetlag on school performance and differences in identity processes between adolescents who used and those who did not use sleep-recovery strategies, which could affect adolescents' psychosocial adjustment.

Keywords: adolescents; catch-up sleep; school experience; school performance; sleep; social jetlag.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funder had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.

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