APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Testing a Potential Bidirectional Relationship between Perseverative Thought and Sleep

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Brittany Alberts
    University of Pittsburgh
  • Blendermann Mary
  • Paige DeGennaro
  • Jennifer Silk
    University of Pittsburgh
  • Peter Gianaros
    University of Pittsburgh
  • Lauren Hallion
    University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

We tested predictions of a bidirectional relationship between sleep and perseverative thought (PT) using ecological momentary assessment in 155 community adults oversampled for high PT. Lower-than-average sleep quality predicted more severe PT the next day, but not vice versa, suggestive of a prospective but potentially unidirectional relationship.

Psychopathology

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