Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol

Jennifer A. Heissel; Patrick T. Sharkey; Gerard Torrats-Espinosa; Kathryn Grant; Emma K. Adam

doi:10.1111/cdev.12889

Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol

Jennifer A. Heissel, Patrick T. Sharkey, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Kathryn Grant, Emma K. Adam

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The data combine objectively measured sleep and thrice-daily salivary cortisol collected from a 4-day diary study in a large Midwestern city with location data on all violent crimes recorded during the same time period for N = 82 children (M_age = 14.90, range = 11.27–18.11). The primary empirical strategy uses a within-person design to measure the change in sleep and cortisol from the person's typical pattern on the night/day immediately following a local violent crime. On the night following a violent crime, children have later bedtimes. Children also have disrupted cortisol patterns the following morning. Supplementary analyses using varying distances of the crime to the child's home address con3firm more proximate crimes correspond to later bedtimes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e323-e331
Journal	Child development
Volume	89
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12889
State	Published - Jul 1 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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