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Over the past decade, clinical, epidemiological and biological research has provided strong evidence for the role of sleep health as a fundamental component of health and well-being (Jackson et al., Annu Rev Public Health 36:417–440, 2015). Emerging research has identified the influences of personal and social stress, family relationships, and neighborhood environmental and social characteristics on sleep. Sleep typically occurs in the context of family behaviors and family schedules. For family scholars, there are valuable opportunities to incorporate consideration of social, psychological, and environmental/contextual factors into sleep study models, and to explicitly assess individual, family, and larger contextual mediators and moderators. Family scholars are especially well positioned to advance understanding of and develop new models that elucidate risk factors and outcomes related to sleep health and that address contextual factors, family relationships, and life course issues.
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Redline, S. (2017). How Can Family Scholars Advance Understanding of Sleep and Health?. In: McHale, S., King, V., Buxton, O. (eds) Family Contexts of Sleep and Health Across the Life Course. National Symposium on Family Issues, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64780-7_8
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