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Does Parental Support Moderate the Relationship Between Gender Identity and Sleep?


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dc.contributor.advisorGillis, Brian
dc.contributor.authorGracy, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-31T15:31:42Z
dc.date.available2025-07-31T15:31:42Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-31
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/9914
dc.description.abstractCompared to their cisgender peers, gender-expansive (GE) youth are more likely to experience less-optimal sleep. Although it is clear that sleep differences exist between GE and cisgender youth, little research has focused on protective factors that could influence this relationship. In cisgender youth, parental support has been shown to impact sleep. In this thesis, we aimed to investigate whether parental support moderates the relationship between gender identity and sleep. In our sample, GE status was associated with earlier wake times and greater variability in sleep midpoint. Higher levels of parental support were associated with increased sleep duration. Although parental support moderated the relationship between GE status and sleep duration, it did so in an unexpected direction. GE youth with higher levels of parental support slept for fewer minutes, on average, than youth with lower levels of parental support.en_US
dc.subjectHuman Development and Family Scienceen_US
dc.titleDoes Parental Support Moderate the Relationship Between Gender Identity and Sleep?en_US
dc.typeMaster's Thesisen_US
dc.embargo.statusNOT_EMBARGOEDen_US
dc.embargo.enddate2025-07-31en_US

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