The relationship between adolescent sleep duration and exposure to school bullying: the masking effect of depressive symptoms

作者：Runqiang Zeng, Dali Han, Wei Du, Jing Wen, Youxian Zhang, Zongyu Li, Qun Du, Qi Yan, Yu Li, Jia He · 发表于：Frontiers in Psychology · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1417960 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Sleep and related disorders、Sleep and Wakefulness Research、Mental Health Research Topics

Background Adolescents who suffer from school bullying are often accompanied by problems such as sleep disorders and depression. However, it remains unclear how depressive symptoms and sleep assessments such as sleep duration interact in the specific mechanisms of exposure to school bullying. Objective To understand the role of sleep duration, depressive symptoms on school bullying in adolescents and the mediating role of sleep duration in this context. Methods A total of 1730 adolescents were selected from Xinjiang province, China by stratified cluster random sampling in 2020, and their demographic characteristics, exposure to school bullying, depressive symptoms, and sleep duration were investigated by questionnaire. Multifactorial logistics regression analyses were performed to examine the effects of sleep duration and depressive symptoms on school bullying. Furthermore, the bootstrap method was used to explore the mediating effect and masking effect of depressive symptoms between sleep duration and school bullying by PROCESS macro in SPSS 26.0. Results A total of 16.42% of adolescents suffered from school bullying and 12.25% showed depressive symptoms. Multifactorial logistics regression analyses revealed that possible depression and depression increase the risk of exposure to school bullying compared to normal group. Sleep duration less than 8 h and between 8 and 10 h are protective factors for exposure to three types of school bullying relative to those who sleep more t...