The Association between Sleep Deprivation, Aggression, and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescents in Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria

Olaniyi Makinde, Karin Österman and Kaj Björkqvist
Additional contact information
Olaniyi Makinde: Ã…bo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Articles, 2022, vol. 8

Abstract: The study investigated whether there were associations between how much adolescents slept per night and how much aggressive and antisocial behavior they displayed and were exposed to. Two hundred thirty-eight adolescents (122 females, 116 males; mean age = 15.5 years, SD = 2.0) from Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria, participated in the study, which was conducted with a paper-and-pencil questionnaire. It was found that the total sleeping time of the adolescents correlated negatively with five scales measuring Adult Aggression, Sibling Aggression, Domestic Violence, Parental Negativity, and Antisocial Behavior. Thus, the less the adolescents slept, the more they were exposed to aggression, and they also themselves behaved more aggressively and antisocially. Participants living in overcrowded conditions slept less than others.

Keywords: Aggression; antisocial behavior; overcrowding; sleep deprivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://brucol.be/index.php/ejis/article/view/7330 (text/html)
https://brucol.be/files/articles/ejis_v8_i2_22/Makinde.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eur:ejisjr:290

DOI: 10.26417/ejis.v4i1.p154-158

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Articles from Revistia Research and Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Revistia Research and Publishing ().