Study shows how relationships, stress affect sleep

A new Personal relationships The study shows how the quality of the relationship and the stress of life at two key moments in early adulthood (age 23 and 32) are related to quality and quantity from sleep to middle age (at age 37).

The investigators found that people with positive relationships beginning in adulthood lived less stressful life-altering events at age 32, which predicts a better quality of sleep at age 37. Sleep is a behavior shared by many romantic relationships. candidate for how relationships "hide" to affect long-term health. The results of the study add to an increasing number of publications showing that one of the main ways in which relationships impact individuals is to reduce the occurrence and severity the stress of life.

"Although a lot of evidence shows that relationships are important for health, we are just beginning to understand how a person's intimate relationships characteristics affect health behaviors, such as sleep" said senior author Chloe Huelsnitz, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. "The results of our study suggest that relationships affecting health behavior have an impact on individual stress, among other things."