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A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 5671

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Dr. Valeria Bacaro

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Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari", Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, Bologna (BO), Viale Europa 115, 47521 Cesena, FC, Italy
Interests: sleep; adolescents; well-being; development; psychosocial context; systematic-review

Dr. Mariacarolina Vacca

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Dear Colleagues,

Adolescence is a life period in which changes happen at multiple levels (i.e., physical, cognitive, and social). These modifications involve different developmental domains, such as identity formation, personal relationships with parents and peers, and internalizing and externalizing problems that can affect healthy developmental patterns. Sleep is one of the central aspects of adolescents' well-being. Nowadays, adolescents often report sleep deprivation conditions and poor sleep quality. This negatively affects their health and the achievement of developmental tasks, which are predictors of poor long-term adult outcomes. At the same time, different aspects of adolescents' daily life experiences consistently impact their cognitions, emotions, and behaviors, and are likely to be intertwined with their sleep patterns.

The primary goal of this Special Issue is to provide a clear picture of the intersection between sleep quality and the psychosocial development of adolescents. Original research focused on the processes which clarify which aspects of sleep quality could enhance youth psychosocial development are welcomed (for instance, research linking sleep quality to mental health or eating behaviors). At the same time, understanding which youth individual factors (e.g., personality, emotion regulation) and social experiences (e.g., family and peer processes, school experiences) could affect sleep quality is of the utmost importance.

Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and basic and applied research will be considered for publication. Examples could include manuscripts that discuss sleep characteristics (e.g., circadian rhythm) and sleep quality, and their intersection with psychosocial development. Furthermore, intervention studies that evaluate the effect of promoting healthy sleep on psychosocial adjustment and/or the impact of reducing proximal risk factors on improving youth sleep quality are welcomed.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Valeria Bacaro
Dr. Mariacarolina Vacca
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sleep
adolescents
well-being
development
psychology
emotional and behavioral difficulties
youth personality

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Differential Associations of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies with Depression, Anxiety, and Insomnia in Adolescence and Early Adulthood

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(10), 5857; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20105857 - 18 May 2023

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While difficulties with emotion regulation (ER) are consistently linked to poor mental health in adulthood, findings in adolescence have been more mixed. Cognitive ER strategies, which involve the ability to manage emotions through mental processes, may be particularly important during different stages of development due to age-specific adjustments. We conducted two exploratory and cross-sectional studies to examine the relationships between cognitive ER strategies and mental health (i.e., depressive, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms) in two samples: 431 young adults (M_age = 20.66 ± 2.21; 70% women and 30% men) and 271 adolescents (M_age = 14.80 ± 0.0.59; 44.6% girls and 55.4% boys). The participants completed a group of questionnaires, including the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Insomnia Severity Index, the Beck Depression Inventory-II, the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Youth Self Report. We employed hierarchical multiple regressions to assess the unique contribution of cognitive ER strategies to mental health outcomes. Maladaptive strategies (such as rumination and catastrophizing) were consistently associated with impaired mental health in both samples, while adaptive strategies (such as positive refocusing and positive reappraisal) were only associated with better mental health in young adults. These findings support the importance of cognitive ER strategies as potential risk factors for psychopathology and suggest that interventions aimed at improving emotion regulation may be beneficial. The age-specific differences in the relationship between cognitive ER strategies and mental health may reflect the refinement of emotion regulation abilities across the lifespan. Full article

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Sleep Well, Study Well: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies on the Interplay between Sleep and School Experience in Adolescence

Valeria Bacaro

Liesbeth Carpentier

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Elisabetta Crocetti

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4829; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064829 - 09 Mar 2023

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Adolescents spend most of their daily time in school and performing school-related activities. Different aspects of their school experiences, such as school performance, psychological factors related to school, and structural factors, consistently impact adolescents’ health and are likely to be intertwined with their sleep (i.e., quantity and quality, sleep disturbances). This systematic review aimed to comprehensively summarize the reciprocal and longitudinal associations between adolescents’ sleep and multiple aspects of their school experience. Using multiple search strategies and applying a two-step selection process, 25 journal articles matched the eligibility criteria and were thus included in the review. The results highlighted the contribution of poor sleep quality and sleep disturbances in predicting longitudinal school experiences-related outcomes (i.e., decreasing school engagement and performance, and increasing school-related burnout, absenteeism, and bullying). At the same time, the results showed how experiences related to the school’s psychological factors (e.g., high levels of school burnout and stressful environment) and structural characteristics (e.g., early school entrance time) affect youth sleep over time (i.e., decreasing sleep quality and quantity). These main findings provided novel insights into the bidirectional relationship between school experience and sleep health, highlighting the importance of more longitudinal research investigating all aspects of healthy sleep, including the size and direction of the association. Full article

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The Social Side of Sleep: A Systematic Review of the Longitudinal Associations between Peer Relationships and Sleep Quality

Francesca De Lise

Valeria Bacaro

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Elisabetta Crocetti

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2017; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032017 - 21 Jan 2023

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In adolescence, peer relationships become crucial since youths start to rely on their peers for support. Thus, multiple facets of adolescents’ well-being are affected by their peer relationships. In this vein, one of the central well-being aspects that could be affected by the peer relationships of adolescents is sleep quality. Nevertheless, it is still unclear how multiple peer relationship factors (i.e., positive, negative, emotional, and behavioral issues related to peer relationships) are intertwined with adolescents’ sleep quality. For this reason, this systematic review with meta-analysis aims to summarize longitudinal studies to uncover how the interplay between peer relationship factors and adolescents’ sleep quality unfolds over time. Nineteen longitudinal studies involving a total of 21,232 adolescents were included. Overall, findings from this review showed that (a) positive peer relationships and sleep quality were not associated over time; (b) negative peer relationships and sleep quality were bidirectionally associated over time; (c) few studies evaluated the bidirectional relations between emotional and behavioral issues and sleep quality, showing links with sleep schedule and duration, but not with sleep quality. Meta-analytic results were discussed, considering their implications. Full article

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