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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Quantitative Psychology

Background:

  • Reciprocal relationships between sleep and affect are well-established in psychological research.
  • Current research often faces challenges due to asynchronous measurement of affect (multiple times daily) and sleep (once daily).
  • Existing dynamic models struggle with these data frequency differences and often assume stationarity, which may not reflect reality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel dynamic structural equation model (SEM) designed to handle asynchronously measured variables.
  • To analyze the reciprocal relations between momentary affect and daily sleep quality.
  • To incorporate individual differences in the affect-sleep relationship.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a dynamic structural equation model (SEM).
  • The model accommodates variables measured at different frequencies (momentary vs. daily).
  • Incorporation of stationarity assumptions and individual differences.

Main Results:

  • The proposed dynamic SEM effectively models the reciprocal relations between momentary affect and daily sleep quality.
  • The model successfully addresses the challenges of asynchronous data and stationarity assumptions.
  • Demonstrated practical applicability through an empirical example using positive and negative affect.

Conclusions:

  • The introduced dynamic SEM provides a flexible framework for analyzing complex psychological data with varying measurement frequencies.
  • This model offers researchers a tool to better understand the interplay between sleep and affect.
  • The framework can be adapted for other asynchronously measured variables and research questions.