It's more than sex: exploring the dyadic nature of sleep and implications for health

WM Troxel - Psychosomatic medicine, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Sleep is a critical health behavior and one that is typically shared between husbands and
wives or romantic partners. However, the science of sleep has traditionally conceptualized …

Sleep and social relationships in healthy populations: A systematic review

AM Gordon, B Carrillo, CM Barnes - Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, research linking sleep and social relationships has burgeoned.
Researchers across the globe are trying to understand whether the quality and quantity of …

Marital quality and the marital bed: Examining the covariation between relationship quality and sleep

WM Troxel, TF Robles, M Hall, DJ Buysse - Sleep medicine reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
The majority of adults sleep with a partner, and for a significant proportion of couples, sleep
problems and relationship problems co-occur, yet there has been little systematic study of …

Does improving marital quality improve sleep? Results from a marital therapy trial

WM Troxel, SR Braithwaite, JG Sandberg… - Behavioral sleep …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
For most adults, sleep is a dyadic behavior. Only recently have studies explored the dynamic
association between sleep and relationship functioning among bed partners. The current …

The social side of sleep: Elucidating the links between sleep and social processes

AM Gordon, WB Mendes… - Current directions in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Sleep problems have become a public health epidemic with recent data suggesting that
more than 69% of US adults get less sleep than they need. Despite the important role that …

Impact of spouses' sleep problems on partners

WJ Strawbridge, SJ Shema, RE Roberts - Sleep, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives: To analyze relationships between spouses' sleep problems and
their partners' physical health, mental health, well-being, social involvement, and marital …

Family relationships and troubled sleep among US adults: examining the influences of contact frequency and relationship quality

JA Ailshire, SA Burgard - Journal of health and social …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Sleep is essential for health and daily functioning, and social relationships may be a key
social factor influencing sleep, yet sleep has been understudied in the literature on social …

Two in a bed: The influence of couple sleeping and chronotypes on relationship and sleep. An overview

K Richter, S Adam, L Geiss, L Peter… - Chronobiology …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To summarize research on couple sleeping with respect to gender-specific
differences and chronotype. Methods: Systematic review of the literature. Results: Millions of …

Couples' nighttime sleep efficiency and concordance: evidence for bidirectional associations with daytime relationship functioning

BP Hasler, WM Troxel - Psychosomatic medicine, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine prospectively the directionality of the association between daily
relationship functioning and nightly sleep quality and the association between couples' …

Maternal sleep in pregnancy and postpartum part I: mental, physical, and interpersonal consequences

LM Christian, JE Carroll, DM Teti, MH Hall - Current Psychiatry Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Sleep is a critical restorative behavior which occupies
approximately one third of people's lives. Extensive data link sleep health with disease and …