Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior by Unknown

Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030306281
Publisher: Springer International Publishing


Couples’ Relationships and Sleep

Shared environment and sleep

For most adults, sleep is a dyadic behavior. Sixty-one percent of couples sleep with their partner (National Sleep Foundation, 2005) and individuals report better sleep quality when they sleep with their partner (Pankhurst & Horne, 1994). Despite a preference for bed-sharing, individuals in a couples’ relationship had less restorative, stage 3 sleep when they shared a bed compared to when they slept alone (Monroe, 1969). This may be due to bed-partners movements. Although a bed partner’s movements may not reach consciousness awareness, one-third of sleep movements are associated with a sleep movement in a partner (Pankhurst & Horne, 1994). Sleep behaviors (e.g. bed timing, wake timing) within couples often parallel one another. Couples tend to go to bed at similar times, have similar sleep onset latencies, a similar number of wakings (Meadows et al., 2009), and when one member of a couple reports better sleep quality, their partner is also more likely to report better quality of sleep (Lee et al., 2018).



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