TY - JOUR
T1 - Interracial unions and sleep duration among heterosexual American adults
AU - Lopez, Angelica
AU - Sheehan, Connor
AU - Yahirun, Jenjira
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by funding from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. In addition, Yahirun acknowledges support from the National Institute on Aging (NIA; R15AG074050 ) and from the Center for Family Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University, which has core funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( P2CHD050959 ). The funding had no rule in the study design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of data, writing, or decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The contents of this manuscript are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views of Arizona State University or Bowling Green University.
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PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - For Americans in romantic unions, sleep occurs in the context of couple relationships. Romantic partners influence one another's circadian rhythms, share beds, buffer or cause stress, and share resources that can be used to improve sleep. Moreover, sleep among individuals in interracial relationships may be negatively impacted by the social construction of race/ethnicity that drive health disparities and that point to the importance of factors such as racism, stress and social adversity that represent the unique lived reality of interracial couples in the U.S. Using non-dyadic data from the 2004–2018 National Health Interview Survey (n = 243,552) we fit a series of multinomial regression models predicting self-reported sleep duration of six or fewer (short), seven to eight (normal), and nine or more (long) hours. After adjusting for demographics, household socioeconomic characteristics, and health characteristics/behaviors, we find that individuals in interracial unions report significantly higher odds of short sleep compared to normal sleep. Race/ethnic stratified models indicated that all respondents in interracial relationships had higher odds of reporting short sleep, but that the association was particularly pronounced among non-Hispanic White adults and Hispanic adults. Generally, we find few differences in these associations between men and women or between those in marital versus those in cohabiting relationships. Future research should continue to investigate how social inequality conditions sleep for Americans in romantic relationships.
AB - For Americans in romantic unions, sleep occurs in the context of couple relationships. Romantic partners influence one another's circadian rhythms, share beds, buffer or cause stress, and share resources that can be used to improve sleep. Moreover, sleep among individuals in interracial relationships may be negatively impacted by the social construction of race/ethnicity that drive health disparities and that point to the importance of factors such as racism, stress and social adversity that represent the unique lived reality of interracial couples in the U.S. Using non-dyadic data from the 2004–2018 National Health Interview Survey (n = 243,552) we fit a series of multinomial regression models predicting self-reported sleep duration of six or fewer (short), seven to eight (normal), and nine or more (long) hours. After adjusting for demographics, household socioeconomic characteristics, and health characteristics/behaviors, we find that individuals in interracial unions report significantly higher odds of short sleep compared to normal sleep. Race/ethnic stratified models indicated that all respondents in interracial relationships had higher odds of reporting short sleep, but that the association was particularly pronounced among non-Hispanic White adults and Hispanic adults. Generally, we find few differences in these associations between men and women or between those in marital versus those in cohabiting relationships. Future research should continue to investigate how social inequality conditions sleep for Americans in romantic relationships.
KW - National Health Interview Survey
KW - Race/ethnicity
KW - Romantic relationships
KW - Sleep duration
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101188
DO - 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101188
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135851373
SN - 2352-8273
VL - 19
JO - SSM - Population Health
JF - SSM - Population Health
M1 - 101188
ER -