title: Your Place or Mine? Does the Sleep Location Matter in Young Couples?
abstract: This study sought to characterize the impact of sleep location (own sleeping environment vs. partner's sleeping environment), social setting (sleeping in pairs vs. sleeping alone), and sex on sleep. An experimental 2 x 2 (sleep location x social setting) within-subject design was employed with 15 young heterosexual couples. The results suggest that sleep location does not appear to have a strong and consistent effect on sleep quantity or quality. The social setting had a specific effect in heterosexual young men, who were found to sleep longer and rise later when cosleeping with their partner. In contrast, we did not find any significant effect of the social setting on sleep continuity parameters in women. In both sexes, sleep quality was perceived to be better when sleeping in pairs. However, there was a higher concordance of the partners' body movements in cosleeping nights compared to the sleeping alone condition.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.|b Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology , University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Spiegelhalder
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Wolfram
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Regen
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Franziska
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Siemon
authors.affiliation: c School of Psychological Sciences University of Manchester , Manchester , UK.
authors.forename: Simon D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Kyle
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baglioni
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Feige
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nissen
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychophysiology and Sleep Medicine, Centre for Mental Disorders , University of Freiburg Medical Centre , Freiburg , Germany.
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Riemann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult