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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Sleep Sci 2021; 14(S 02): 179-184
DOI: 10.5935/1984-0063.20200095
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Self-control or social control - what determines sleep hygiene in bed-sharing couples?

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  • Henning Johannes Drews

    1   Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Mental Health - Trondheim - Trøndelag - Norway.
    2   Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Kiel - Schleswig-Holstein - Germany.

  • Robert Göder

    2   Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Kiel - Schleswig-Holstein - Germany.

  • Panagiotis Mitkidis

    3   Aarhus University, Department of Management - Aarhus - Midtjylland - Denmark.
    4   Duke University, Center for Advanced Hindsight, Social Science Research Institute - Durham - North Carolina - United States.
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Objectives: To investigate intimate partners’ impact on sleep hygiene with focus on the temporal dimension and differential predictors of sleep hygiene in co-sleepers and individual sleepers.

Material and Methods: Habitual co-sleepers and individual sleepers (n=102) completed a cross-sectional, self-report, in-lab, digital survey on sleep hygiene, habitual sleeping arrangement, self-control, depressiveness, and sociodemographic parameters.

Results: The relationship between sleeping arrangement and sleep hygiene in co-sleepers was time-dependent with an initial steep incline and a subsequent plateau at approximately one year of co-sleeping routine. Co-sleepers with more than one year of unaltered sleeping arrangement had significantly better sleep hygiene than co-sleepers with less than one-year or individual sleepers. More than one-year continuity of the sleeping arrangement moreover robustly predicted sleep hygiene in co-sleepers whereas self-control was the dominant predictor in individual sleepers.

Conclusion: Amongst others, our findings support the idea that insomnia treatment could be improved by becoming sensitive to the habitual sleeping arrangement.

Sleep Hygiene - Co-sleep - Bed-sharing - Self-control - Social Control - CBTI


Publication History

Received: 11 September 2020

Accepted: 08 January 2021

Article published online:
30 November 2023

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