Loneliness trajectories from middle childhood to pre-adolescence: Impact on perceived health and sleep disturbance
Loneliness trajectories from middle childhood to pre-adolescence: Impact on perceived health and sleep disturbance
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DOI：
10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.12.009
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发表时间：
2013-12-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Robinson, Sarita J.
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作者：
Harris, Rebecca A.;Qualter, Pamela;Robinson, Sarita J.
目前的研究首次在青少年前样本(N=209)中调查了慢性孤独与感知健康、因病缺课、睡眠时间和干扰之间的关系。孤独感是在三次收集浪潮中进行测量的，这三次收集浪潮相隔18个月，覆盖了8-11岁的年龄。使用混合生长模型，确定了两组不同的孤独感增长模式：(A)相对高的，减少孤独感(48%)，和(B)低，稳定的孤独感(52%)。在11岁时，相对较高的减少孤独组的儿童报告的抑郁症状水平更高，总体健康状况更差，入睡时间更长，睡眠障碍更大。这些发现表明，在童年中期经历高度孤独可能会对健康产生长期影响，即使孤独水平在青春期前降至正常水平。(C)2013年青少年服务专业人员基金会。爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
The current study is the first to examine the association between chronic loneliness and perceived health, school absence due to illness, sleep duration and disturbance, in a sample of pre-adolescents (N = 209). Loneliness was measured in three collection waves that were 18 months apart and covered the ages 8-11 years. Using growth mixture modeling, two groups were identified with discrete growth patterns of loneliness: (a) relatively high, reducing loneliness (48%), and (b) low, stable loneliness (52%). At age 11 years, those in the relatively high, reducing lonely group reported higher levels of depressive symptoms, poorer general health, took longer to get to sleep, and had greater sleep disturbance than children in the low, stable loneliness group. These findings suggest that there may be long-term health effects of experiencing high loneliness in middle childhood, even when loneliness levels reduce to normal levels at pre-adolescence. (C) 2013 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.