0858 Teenage Girls Report Higher Impact Of Sleepiness During School And Personal Activities Than Teenage Boys
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Abstract
Researchers have shown that during adolescence, sleep goes through modifications, such as a delay in the sleep-wake patterns. This comes into conflict with the fixed schedules imposed by social and school demands and therefore has an influence on teenagers’ sleepiness and daytime functioning. Whether boys and girls report similar negative impact of sleep disturbances on their daytime functioning is examined in the present study. 731 adolescents (311 boys; 420 girls; 13–17,5y; grade 9–11) completed a questionnaire among which were questions on sleep and daytime functioning: 1) difficulties staying awake during class in the morning, (2) during class in the afternoon, and (3) after class while doing their homework; (4) being too tired to do activities with their friends, (5) missing school because of being too tired; (6) falling asleep during class; (7) feeling less motivated in school because of their poor sleep; (8) consuming coffee or energy drinks to compensate for their daytime sleepiness; and (9) taking naps during weekends. Items were answered on a 7 point Likert scale (1=never; 7=often). Gender differences were assessed using t-tests. Teenage girls reported more difficulties staying awake during class in the morning (t(723)=-3.95, p<.001), during class in the afternoon (t(720)=-3.98,p<.001), and during homework (t(720)=-4.11, p<.001) than boys. They also reported feeling too tired to do activities with their friends (t(721)=-3.40, p=.001), missing school because of being too tired (t(719.18)=-4.10, p<.001), feeling less motivated in school because of their poor sleep (t(695.93)=-4.20, p<.001), and taking naps during weekends (t(698.36)=-3.41,p=.001) more often than boys. However, there was no gender difference when it comes to using coffee or energy drinks to compensate for daytime sleepiness (t(715)=-.53; p=.60) or for falling asleep in class (t(722)=-.77; p=.44). Overall, our results show that girls reported a higher degree of interference of daytime sleepiness on multiple aspects of their school and personal activities than boys. This suggests that teenage girls may be more vulnerable to the negative impacts of sleep changes during adolescence than teenage boys. NA
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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