不良的睡眠习惯会压抑青少年 Bad sleep habits can depress teens

News Release 18-Mar-2020

Links to negative thoughts and perfectism

Flinders University

Nagging negative thoughts – and striving for perfection – keep teenagers awake at night, raising their chance of becoming depressed and anxious, a new study shows.

An online study of almost 400 adolescents aged 14 to 20 years confirmed the link, leading sleep researchers at Flinders University to recommend alternative treatments for repetitive negative thinking and perfectionism in dealing with delayed sleep and mental health problems among teenagers.

Professor Michael Gradisar, director of the Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic at Flinders University, says the study confirmed a link between repeated negative thinking and delayed sleep. This was exacerbated in respondents with perfectionism tendencies.

“Repetitive negative thinking is habit forming and it can significantly contribute to making sleep difficult and causing depressed mood in teenagers, who already like to stay up late at night,” Professor Gradisar says.

“This study supports the need to recognise repetitive negative thinking in preventing and treating sleep problems, along with individual differences in perfectionism and mood.”

The role of repetitive negative thinking and perfectionism in explaining the link between sleep onset problems and depressed mood has important clinical implications through providing possible treatment targets.

International studies indicates depression affects between 3% and 8% of adolescents. It is often recurring and may continue to develop into more severe depressive disorders during adulthood.

In teenagers, depression can cause poor concentration, a loss of interest in schoolwork, difficulties in peer relationships, and even suicide.

Clinical child psychology Professor Michael Gradisar stresses that sleep plays an important part in preventing and treating depression in teenagers.

He says parents and carers can implement better sleep health by encouraging regular bedtime routines during the school week and weekends, and encouraging mobile phones to be turned off earlier in the evening.

Professor Gradisar says busy lifestyles, stress and screen time makes self-help and accessible resources for better sleep increasingly important.

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The Flinders University sleep clinic has collaborated with national youth mental health services headspace and Orygen to translate evidence-based tools developed from more than a decade of research.

Expertise from Flinders psychology’s Child and Adolescent Sleep Clinic have also contributed to new resources for the Sleep Health Foundation and VicHealth.

The new publication, The roles of repetitive negative thinking and perfectionism in explaining the relationship between sleep onset difficulties and depressed mood in adolescents (March 2020) by Iris Huang (BA Hons), Michelle A Short, Kate Bartel, Anne O’Shea, Rachel M Hiller, Nicole Lovato, Gorica Micic, Michael Oliver and Michael Gradisar has been published in Sleep Health (Elsevier) DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.09.008

不良的睡眠习惯会压抑青少年

Upcoming changes to historyTranslation history will soon only be available when you are signed in and will be centrally managed within My Activity. Past history will be cleared during this upgrade, so make sure to save translations you want to remember for ease of access later.Got it2166/5000一项新的研究显示，不休的消极想法-追求完美-会使青少年在晚上醒着，增加了他们变得沮丧和焦虑的机会。

一项针对近400名14至20岁青少年的在线研究证实了这种联系，促使弗林德斯大学的睡眠研究人员为重复的负面思维和完美主义推荐替代疗法，以解决青少年的延​​迟睡眠和心理健康问题。

弗林德斯大学（Flinders University）儿童和青少年睡眠诊所主任迈克尔•格拉迪萨尔教授（Michael Gradisar）说，这项研究证实了反复的负面思考与延迟睡眠之间的联系。具有完美主义倾向的受访者更是如此。

格雷迪萨尔教授说：“重复的消极思维是习惯的养成，它可以极大地导致难以入睡并引起青少年的情绪低落，他们已经喜欢熬夜了。”

“这项研究支持需要认识到在预防和治疗睡眠问题中反复出现的消极思想，以及个人在完美主义和情绪上的差异。”

通过提供可能的治疗目标，反复的消极思维和完美主义在解释睡眠发作问题和情绪低落之间的联系方面具有重要的临床意义。

国际研究表明，抑郁症影响了3％至8％的青少年。它经常复发，并可能在成年期继续发展为更严重的抑郁症。

在青少年中，抑郁症可能导致注意力不集中，对功课失去兴趣，同伴关系困难甚至自杀。

临床儿童心理学教授Michael Gradisar强调，睡眠在预防和治疗青少年抑郁症中起着重要作用。

他说，父母和看护人可以通过鼓励在上学期间和周末定期安排就寝时间，并鼓励在傍晚关闭手机来实现更好的睡眠健康。

格拉迪萨尔教授说，忙碌的生活方式，压力和放映时间使得自助和可获取的资源来改善睡眠变得越来越重要。