title: Daily concordance between parent and adolescent sleep habits.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the daily concordance between parent and adolescent daily sleep habits, how that concordance compares to other predictors of sleep, and whether the degree of concordance varies across families.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 421 adolescents (Mage = 15.03 years) and their primary caregivers (Mage = 41.93 years) reported their sleep, bed, and wake times on a daily basis for a 2-week period. Approximately 80% of the sample repeated the same protocol 1 year later.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Multilevel modeling indicated a significant concordance between parent and adolescent sleep, bed, and wake times on a daily basis. Concordance existed independent of other predictors of sleep such as day of the week and adolescent study time. Larger families and those with higher levels of parent-adolescent support exhibited greater concordance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adolescent sleep is connected to the sleep habits of their parents, above and beyond commonly known structural and experiential factors that can shape teenage sleep. Efforts to improve teenage sleep should pay greater attention to the sleep patterns of parents and potentially other family members.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California; Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California; Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: afuligni@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fuligni
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California; Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: Kim M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Krull
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Gonzales
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017028:Caregivers; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006184:Habits; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D012890:Sleep; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Adolescence; Family; Sleep