The Association between Sleep Patterns, Educational Identity, and School Performance in Adolescents

Adolescents’ school experience can be developmentally related to adolescents’ sleep. This study aimed to understand how sleep patterns (i.e., sleep duration and sleep-schedule) and weekend sleep-recovery strategies (i.e., social jetlag and weekend catch-up sleep) are associated with adolescents’ school experience (i.e., educational identity and school performance). Moreover, the differences in the school experiences between adolescents with different numbers of weekend-sleep-recovery strategies were assessed. For this purpose, 542 Italian adolescents (55.2% females, mean age 15.6 years) wore an actigraph for one week. After the actigraphic assessment, questionnaires on educational identity and school performance were administered. Results showed that short sleep-duration, later bedtime during weekdays and weekends, and a higher amount of social jetlag were negatively associated with school performance. Furthermore, adolescents who did not use any sleep-recovery strategy during the weekend presented lower levels of educational in-depth exploration compared to adolescents with higher levels of catch-up sleep but not social jetlag. These data pointed out a potentially detrimental role of social jetlag on school performance and differences in identity processes between adolescents who used and those who did not use sleep-recovery strategies, which could affect adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment

Different Effects of Social Jetlag and Weekend Catch-Up Sleep on Well-Being of Adolescents According to the Actual Sleep Duration

: The aim of this study was to explore the potentially different associations between two common aspects of adolescents' life, namely social jetlag and weekend catch-up sleep, with well-being and physical health, according to the actual sleep duration, i.e., <7 h and ≥7 h. To this end, 504 participants (42.1% males), with a mean age of 16.17 (standard deviation = 1.39), were examined in the this cross-sectional study. Participants were asked to wear the Micro Motionlogger Watch actigraph (Ambulatory Monitoring, Inc., Ardlsey, NY, USA) around their non-dominant wrist for seven consecutive days in order to objectively assess social jetlag and weekend catch-up sleep. Participants were also asked to fill in the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form for the assessment of subjective, social, and psychological well-being, as well as the SF-36 Health Survey for the perception of physical health. In adolescents sleeping less than 7 h, those experiencing weekend catch-up sleep longer than 120 min reported significantly lower subjective well-being compared to those with a weekend catch-up sleep duration between 0 and 59 min. These data pointed out the detrimental effect of long weekend catch-up sleep on self-reported well-being only in adolescents getting less than the recommended amount of sleep

Manuale di filologia e linguistica romanza. Nuova edizione

Il libro offre un panorama completo e aggiornato delle lingue romanze: origine, profilo attuale, documenti antichi. I cambiamenti che hanno portato dal latino alle nuove lingue sono descritti con grande chiarezza utilizzando i più moderni metodi di analisi linguistica. Strumento di riferimento indispensabile per tutti i corsi di filologia romanza, il manuale è qui presentato in una nuova edizione, ampiamente rivista e corredata da una serie di testi romanzi con commento linguistico. INDICE DEL VOLUME: Prefazione alla nuova edizione. - Introduzione. - Parte prima. - I. Il dominio romanzo. - II. Il paradigma classico. - III. Il paradigma storico. - IV. Il paradigma moderno: la lingua come struttura e la visione sincronica del linguaggio. - V. Variazione sociale e geografica. - VI. Il cambiamento nella linguistica contemporanea. - VII. Il latino. - VIII. I caratteri delle lingue romanze. - Parte seconda. - IX. I primi testi romanzi. - X. L’edizione dei testi. - XI. Latino volgare e lingue romanze medievali: alcuni testi commentati. - Letture consigliate. - Carte. - Indice degli argomenti

Una pagina di storia della linguistica rivisitata: la Geografia linguistica romanza e la linguistica areale

The paper gives a brief overview of the most important results achieved by Linguistic geography and Areal linguistics in the field of Romance Linguistics. The origin of Linguistic geography goes back to Gilliéron and his school. These scholars developed a ‘stratigraphic’ mode of interpretation of linguistic maps, aiming to modify the linguistic model of the Neogrammarians, based on sound laws. In the early 1960s, in the light of Saussurean and post- Saussurean linguistics, the methods, techniques and achievements of Linguistic geography seemed to many scholars to be outdated. This was the ‘crisis’ of Linguistic geography. This is not to say that linguistic geography never had and never will have any use. From the beginning linguistic maps brought to light interesting phenomena that have become accepted wisdom in linguistics and dialectology. One of these concerns the fact that, at least in some cases, dialects are typically identified by a bundle of isoglosses. Moreover, Matteo Bartoli ‘areal norms’ represent the most important attempt to explain the distribution of linguistic forms in geographical space

Manuale di filologia e linguistica romanza. Nuova edizione

Il libro offre un panorama completo e aggiornato delle lingue romanze: origine, profilo attuale, documenti antichi. I cambiamenti che hanno portato dal latino alle nuove lingue sono descritti con grande chiarezza utilizzando i più moderni metodi di analisi linguistica. Strumento di riferimento indispensabile per tutti i corsi di filologia romanza, il manuale è qui presentato in una nuova edizione, ampiamente rivista e corredata da una serie di testi romanzi con commento linguistico. INDICE DEL VOLUME: Prefazione alla nuova edizione. - Introduzione. - Parte prima. - I. Il dominio romanzo. - II. Il paradigma classico. - III. Il paradigma storico. - IV. Il paradigma moderno: la lingua come struttura e la visione sincronica del linguaggio. - V. Variazione sociale e geografica. - VI. Il cambiamento nella linguistica contemporanea. - VII. Il latino. - VIII. I caratteri delle lingue romanze. - Parte seconda. - IX. I primi testi romanzi. - X. L’edizione dei testi. - XI. Latino volgare e lingue romanze medievali: alcuni testi commentati. - Letture consigliate. - Carte. - Indice degli argomenti

Geography and Distribution of the Romance Languages

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Dai volgari ai dialetti. Schizzo di storia linguistica dell'Italia medievale

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