If you ask any teen, they’d probably tell you that popularity is a holy grail of sorts for their age group. We suspect that walking through the halls of any high school, basking in the admiration of everyone around you, can certainly come with its perks, but newly published research shows that popularity can also exact a heavy toll on sleep — especially for girls. And while our knee-jerk reaction may be to blame the smartphone in every hand, technology Popular teens aren’t likely to reach their sleep requirements. Each night, the most popular teens sleep 27 minutes less than their not-so-popular peers. Popular girls reported more symptoms of insomnia they had a harder time falling or staying asleep or waking too early than boys. Teenagers rarely go to sleep at what parents and caregivers may deem to be an “appropriate” time Teens have a normal sleep phase delay in their internal clock. This means they start to feel sleepy about two hours later in the evening and are ready to wake up and be alert two hours later in the morning Computers and smartphones are usually on the list of usual suspects when it comes to losing sleep, but the study’s researchers say that’s not quite the case. The paper suggests that insufficient sleep among teen girls is more likely due to gender socialization. Teens are naturally social creatures, and smartphones prey on this innate tendency, they say. Teenage girls may be carrying more of a mental load one that’s amplified by technology that makes it difficult to disconnect and sleep
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