TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary evidence for a relationship between sleep disturbance and global attributional style in depression
AU - Haynes, Patricia L.
AU - Ancoli-Israel, Sonia
AU - Walter, Christina M.
AU - McQuaid, John R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was supported by Patricia Haynes’ NIMH NRSA 1F31MH064255, and Sonia Ancoli-Israel’s NIA AG08415, NCI CA112035. These data were presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (Denver, June 2005). We would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Richard Bootzin for his feedback on the presentation.
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - We hypothesized that a negative, stable, and global attributional style would mediate the relationship between sleep continuity and depression. Twenty-three currently depressed and 31 never-depressed participants completed the Attributional Styles Questionnaire and wore an actigraph during the course of 1 week. Linear and logistic regression techniques were used to calculate path coefficients to test the mediating relationship. Results indicated that a global attributional style mediated the relationship between poor sleep continuity (frequency of awakenings), delayed morning waketime, increased total time spent in bed, and depression. Reverse mediation analyses indicated that these relationships may be bidirectional. No effects were found for stable or internal attributions. These results suggest that global attributions may, in part, mediate the relationship between sleep disturbances and depression. They also provide data consistent with the hypothesis that disrupted sleep is associated with learned helplessness. Prospective studies are necessary to test the directionality of these relationships.
AB - We hypothesized that a negative, stable, and global attributional style would mediate the relationship between sleep continuity and depression. Twenty-three currently depressed and 31 never-depressed participants completed the Attributional Styles Questionnaire and wore an actigraph during the course of 1 week. Linear and logistic regression techniques were used to calculate path coefficients to test the mediating relationship. Results indicated that a global attributional style mediated the relationship between poor sleep continuity (frequency of awakenings), delayed morning waketime, increased total time spent in bed, and depression. Reverse mediation analyses indicated that these relationships may be bidirectional. No effects were found for stable or internal attributions. These results suggest that global attributions may, in part, mediate the relationship between sleep disturbances and depression. They also provide data consistent with the hypothesis that disrupted sleep is associated with learned helplessness. Prospective studies are necessary to test the directionality of these relationships.
KW - Actigraphy
KW - Depression
KW - Learned helplessness
KW - Sleep
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U2 - 10.1007/s10608-011-9416-5
DO - 10.1007/s10608-011-9416-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84859842355
SN - 0147-5916
VL - 36
SP - 140
EP - 148
JO - Cognitive Therapy and Research
JF - Cognitive Therapy and Research
IS - 2
ER -