BACKGROUND: Sleep is intricately tied to emotional well-being, yet little is known about the reciprocal links between sleep and psychosocial experiences in the context of daily life.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• The role of presleep negative emotion in sleep physiology (2011) · doi

  Although daytime emotional stressful events are often presumed to cause sleep disturbances, the few studies of stressful life events on sleep physiology have resulted in various and contradictory findings.

  Keywords: stressful events sleep daytime emotional often presumed cause disturbances life physiology resulted various contradictory
• The sleeping brain and the neural basis of emotions (2012) · doi

  In addition to active wake, emotions are generated and experienced in a variety of functionally different states such as those of sleep, during which external stimulation and cognitive control are lacking.

  Keywords: addition active wake emotions generated experienced variety functionally different states sleep external stimulation cognitive control
• Bidirectional, Temporal Associations of Sleep with Positive Events, Affect, and Stressors in Daily Life Across a Week (2017) · doi

  BACKGROUND: Sleep is intricately tied to emotional well-being, yet little is known about the reciprocal links between sleep and psychosocial experiences in the context of daily life.

  Keywords: sleep background intricately tied emotional well little known reciprocal links psychosocial experiences context daily life
• Affective recovery from stress and its associations with sleep (2020) · doi

  Studies have linked sleep with people's ability to regulate their emotions in response to stressful events, yet little is known specifically about how sleep is related to a person's ability to recover affectively from a stressful experience.

  Keywords: sleep ability stressful linked people regulate emotions response events little known specifically related person recover