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  • Sociology
  • Gerontology
  • Sleep Science

Background:

  • Social roles significantly impact health and well-being.
  • The life course perspective highlights how experiences across the lifespan shape outcomes.
  • Understanding the interplay between social roles and sleep is crucial for middle-aged adults.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how social role accumulation, repertoires, and contexts affect sleep health (duration, quality, latency) in middle-aged adults.
  • To examine gender differences in the relationship between social roles and sleep health.
  • To apply role theory and the life course perspective to sleep health research.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (N = 7,628).
  • Employed role theory and life course perspective to analyze social roles and sleep health.
  • Examined sleep duration, quality, latency, insomnia symptoms, role accumulation, and role repertoires.

Main Results:

  • Role accumulation was linked to reduced sleep duration and fewer insomnia symptoms.
  • Specific role repertoires, such as parenthood, negatively impacted sleep quantity and quality.
  • Contextual factors including employment history, marital quality, and parenthood significantly affected sleep health.
  • Observed gendered patterns in the associations between social roles and sleep health.

Conclusions:

  • Multiple dimensions of social roles are integral to understanding sleep health.
  • The findings underscore the utility of role theory and life course perspective in sleep research.
  • Interventions addressing social roles may improve sleep health in middle-aged populations, considering gender differences.