Is a lack of sleep harming adolescents’ academic prospects in the digital age?
Journal Title: Jornal de Pediatria - Year 2019, Vol 95, Issue 4
Abstract
Adolescence is a crucial developmental period for defining one's academic expectations. In many countries, teenagers must prepare for and take national exams. Those outcomes may have a long-lasting impact on the future career path and, ultimately, on the quality of adult life. Understanding the correlates of individual differences in adolescent academic performance may have important implications for behavioral interventions and educational policy; thus, it is an area ripe for research. One construct that has been consistently linked to school performance is executive function,1 a set of high-order cognitive skills required for goal-directed behavior.2 However, there is also evidence that certain lifestyle factors may contribute to academic outcomes in adolescence. In addition to dietary habits and physical activity,3 sleep and Internet use have been proposed as two important predictors of adolescent academic performance.4,5 The study of Adelantado-Renau et al.6 in this issue of Jornal de Pediatria provides an interesting contribution to this literature.
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Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
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- DOI 10.1016/j.jped.2018.07.007
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