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Open Access 01-12-2024 | Mood Disorders | Research

Too little or too much: nonlinear relationship between sleep duration and daily affective well-being in depressed adults

Authors: Sun Ah Lee, Dahlia Mukherjee, Jonathan Rush, Soomi Lee, David M. Almeida

Published in: BMC Psychiatry | Issue 1/2024

Abstract

Background

In addition to having higher negative affect and lower positive affect overall, depressed individuals exhibit heightened affective reactivity to external stimuli than non-depressed individuals. Sleep may contribute to day-to-day fluctuations in depressed individuals, given that sleep disturbance is a common symptom of depression. Yet, little is known about changes in daily affect as a function of nightly sleep duration in depressed adults and non-depressed adults. The current study examined whether and how naturally-occurring sleep duration is associated with negative and positive affect, and how these associations differ between depressed vs. non-depressed adults.

Methods

Data were drawn from the second wave of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), a daily diary project of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study. The sample of 2,012 adults (M_age=56.5; 57% female; 84% white) completed eight-day diary interviews via telephone on their daily experiences including nightly sleep duration and negative and positive affect. They also completed assessments of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Short form, and depressed status was determined based on DSM-III. Multilevel regression models with linear, quadratic, and cubic terms of sleep duration examined the nonlinear relationship between nightly sleep duration and daily affect. Interaction terms with depression status were added to examine differences between depressed and non-depressed adults.

Results

Depressed adults exhibited significant and greater fluctuations in daily affect as a function of nightly sleep duration than non-depressed adults. Specifically, the degree of decrease in positive affect and increase in negative affect was greater when depressed adults slept 2 or more hours less or longer than their usual sleep hours. Non-depressed adults exhibited relatively stable daily affect regardless of their nightly sleep hours.

Conclusions

Sleep duration is nonlinearly associated with affect in daily lives of depressed adults, highlighting that both having too little sleep and excessive sleep are associated with adverse daily affective well-being. Implementing sleep interventions to promote an appropriate sleep duration may help improve daily affect among depressed adults.

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Title: Too little or too much: nonlinear relationship between sleep duration and daily affective well-being in depressed adults
Authors: Sun Ah Lee
Dahlia Mukherjee
Jonathan Rush
Soomi Lee
David M. Almeida
Publication date: 01-12-2024
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keywords: Mood Disorders
Affective Disorder
Published in: BMC Psychiatry / Issue 1/2024
Electronic ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05747-7

2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

Springer Medicine

Too little or too much: nonlinear relationship between sleep duration and daily affective well-being in depressed adults

Abstract

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Abstract

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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