Citation

Heissel JA, Sharkey PT, Torrats-Espinosa G, Grant K, Adam EK. Child Dev. 2018; 89(4): e323-e331.

Affiliation

Northwestern University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cdev.12889

PMID

28741650

Abstract

The data combine objectively measured sleep and thrice-daily salivary cortisol collected from a 4-day diary study in a large Midwestern city with location data on all violent crimes recorded during the same time period for N = 82 children (Mage  = 14.90, range = 11.27-18.11). The primary empirical strategy uses a within-person design to measure the change in sleep and cortisol from the person's typical pattern on the night/day immediately following a local violent crime. On the night following a violent crime, children have later bedtimes. Children also have disrupted cortisol patterns the following morning. Supplementary analyses using varying distances of the crime to the child's home address confirm more proximate crimes correspond to later bedtimes.

© 2017 The Authors. Child Development © 2017 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

Language: en