Journal Article

Day-to-day associations between subjective sleep and affect in regard to future depression in a female population-based sample

WICHERS, Marieke, SIMONS, Claudia J. P, THIERY, Evert, VAN BEMMEL, Alex L, JACOBS, Nele, DE WILD-HARTMANN, Jessica A, VAN OS, Jim, DEROM, Catherine

2013

Overview

Poor sleep is a risk factor for depression, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Disentangling potential mechanisms by which sleep may be related to depression by zooming down to the 'micro-level' of within-person daily life patterns of subjective sleep and affect using the experience sampling method (ESM). A population-based twin sample consisting of 553 women underwent a 5-day baseline ESM protocol assessing subjective sleep and affect together with four follow-up assessments of depression. Sleep was associated with affect during the next day, especially positive affect. Daytime negative affect was not associated with subsequent night-time sleep. Baseline sleep predicted depressive symptoms across the follow-up period. The subtle, repetitive impact of sleep on affect on a daily basis, rather than the subtle repetitive impact of affect on sleep, may be one of the factors on the pathway to depression in women.

• Publisher: Maney
• Subject: Activities of daily living / Adolescent / Adult / Adult and adolescent clinical studies / Affect - physiology / Biological and medical sciences / Declarations / Depression / Depressive Disorder - epidemiology / Female / Follow-Up Studies / Humans / Medical sciences / Middle Aged / Mood disorders / Netherlands - epidemiology / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychopathology. Psychiatry / Siblings / Sleep / Sleep - physiology / Surveys and Questionnaires / Twins / Twins - statistics & numerical data / Women / Young Adult