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Sleep and emotion regulation: An organizing, integrative review
Palmer, C. A., & Alfano, C. A. (2017). Sleep and emotion regulation: An organizing, integrative review.
Level D Review doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2015.12.006
What this study supports
Supports the claims that sleep-emotion research has often poorly delineated constructs, focusing on emotions generated after poor sleep rather than regulatory processes, and that maladaptive changes appear at multiple stages of emotion generation and regulation. Narrative review.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: an integrative review of sleep and emotion regulation organised by the process model.
- Design
- Review
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
EmpiricalLevel DConfidence MODERATE
A narrative review of the field observed that research on sleep and emotion has focused more on emotions generated after inadequate sleep than on the regulatory processes that may alter them, with constructs often poorly delineated.
- Scope
- A narrative review organised by the process model of emotion regulation.
- Caveat
- A narrative review, not a systematic synthesis; it describes the state of a literature that has grown since 2017.
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