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  • Educational Psychology
  • Chronobiology

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  • Adolescents' school experiences are developmentally intertwined with their sleep patterns.
  • Understanding the relationship between sleep, school performance, and identity is crucial for adolescent well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between sleep patterns (duration, schedule) and weekend sleep recovery strategies (social jetlag, catch-up sleep) with adolescents' school experience (educational identity, school performance).
  • To examine differences in school experiences among adolescents based on their use of weekend sleep-recovery strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Actigraphy was used for one week to objectively measure sleep patterns in 542 Italian adolescents (mean age 15.6 years).
  • Questionnaires assessed educational identity and school performance post-actigraphy.
  • Statistical analyses were performed to determine associations and group differences.

Main Results:

  • Short sleep duration, later bedtimes, and increased social jetlag were negatively correlated with school performance.
  • Adolescents employing no weekend sleep recovery showed lower educational in-depth exploration than those with catch-up sleep but no social jetlag.

Conclusions:

  • Social jetlag may detrimentally impact adolescent school performance.
  • Differences in sleep-recovery strategies are linked to variations in identity processes, potentially affecting psychosocial adjustment in adolescents.