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2025 APS Annual Convention

Discrimination in College, Marginalization-Related Vigilance and Sleep in Young Adulthood

Sunday, May 25, 2025 · Washington, DC

Submitted Talk · Sunday, May 25, 2025 · 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM ET

Subject Area: Clinical Science

We examined how experiencing discrimination during the college years among a sample of underrepresented students may be related to poor sleep in young adulthood via greater marginalization-related vigilance. Results from our study suggested that discrimination across the college years indirectly predicted poor sleep six years later through greater marginalization-related vigilance.

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