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| Association of sleep problems and rumination thinking in adolescents |
| MAO Huili, PENG Yu, XIONG Sicheng,YUAN Mengqi, LUO Xinsen, HU Rongting, ZHANG Bin |
| Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Management, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, Hunan Province, China |
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Abstract Objective To explore the correlation relationship and the likely causal direction between sleep problems and ruminant thinking in adolescents during 3 months. Methods A longitudinal follow－up survey of 435 adolescents was conducted with Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and ruminative responses scale (RRS) at intervals of 3 months. Results Correlation analysis results indicated that sleep problems were significantly positively related with rumination thinking at Time 1 and Time 2. Structural equation modeling analyses generally favored the cross－lagged effects model. Specifically, sleep problems at Time 1 significantly predicted the increase in rumination thinking at Time 2 (r＝0.15, P<0.01), but rumination thinking at Time 1 was not a predictor of sleep problems at Time 2 (r＝0.02, P>0.05). Gender difference did not lie in the cross－lagged effects model of sleep quality and ruminant thinking of adolescents. Conclusion Sleep problems of adolescents are closely related to ruminant thinking, and sleep problems can negatively predict ruminant thinking.
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