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  • Stress Research

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  • Executive functions are crucial for daily life and are known to be impacted by sleep and stress.
  • Both poor sleep regulation and psychological stress can impair executive functions, with stress potentially exacerbating sleep problems.
  • Recent increases in stress and poor sleep highlight the need to understand their combined effects on executive functions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between daily sleep patterns, stress exposure, and executive function performance.
  • To examine how sleep/wake regularity and acute stress events influence cognitive inhibition, flexibility, and working memory.

Main Methods:

  • A 21-day remote, app-based study involving 227 participants.
  • Daily sleep and stress assessments were conducted three times per day.
  • Executive functioning was assessed using the Emotional Stroop task, Trail Making Test A/B, and Backwards Digit Span.

Main Results:

  • Consistent sleep/wake schedules were associated with fewer reported acute stress events.
  • Greater sleep/wake regularity correlated with faster responses to self-relevant negative stimuli in the Stroop task.
  • An interaction between sleep/wake variability and acute stress predicted Emotional Stroop performance, with increased stress slowing responses in those with regular sleep schedules.

Conclusions:

  • Sleep/wake regularity may play a protective role in maintaining adaptive inhibitory control in the face of cumulative acute stress.
  • While regular sleep aids stress response, high cumulative stress can still impair inhibitory control, particularly for specific stimuli types.
  • Executive functions like working memory and cognitive flexibility were not significantly impacted by the number or intensity of acute stress events in this study.