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Abstract: The goals of this research include 1) establishing the relationship between personal income and sleep disturbance; and 2) determining whether or not the relationship between personal income and sleep disturbance differs between males and females. The sample for this investigation came from the fourth wave of the The U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (ADDHEALTH), which is a representative study performed on a young adult population in the United States. Sleep disturbance was measured using two different questions from the ADDHEALTH wave IV data set. First, with the question “Over the past four weeks, how often did you have trouble staying asleep throughout the night?”. Sleep quality was also measured with the question “Over the past four weeks, how often did you have trouble falling asleep?”. The hypothesis being evaluated in the present investigation is that low income groups will suffer from the most sleep disturbance while individuals from high income groups will experience the least sleep disturbance. In addition, it can be hypothesized that females will demonstrate more sleep disturbance than males with the same personal income.
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