Table 2 –
Reported sleep schedule for weekdays and weekends, and desired sleep schedule
| Age (N) | Sex (N) | Reported sleep range | Reasons | Illustrative Quotes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEEKDAYS | ||||
| 12 (1) | Female (1) | 9:00pm - 6:00am | Parental rules, school schedule | “So at 8:00 is when my little sister has to get ready, but for me, I am allowed to stay up until 9:00 the latest on a school night.” |
| 13 (4) | Male (1) | 9:00pm - 6:30am | None mentioned | |
| Female (3) | 8:30pm/10:00pm - 6:00am | Parental rules | “I stay on it [phone] till I can’t anymore. My mom makes me put my phone up like, in her room, so I don’t have it at night.” | |
| 14 (11) | Male (7) | 8:35pm/11:00pm - 6:00am, four said 9:00pm | Parental rules, school schedule | “[I]f you’re an adult, I don’t know, you can stay up until whenever you want. But if you really care about your education and all that, I would go to sleep like around 9:00 or something like that.” |
| Female (4) | 9:30pm/11pm - 6:00am/6:45am, one is not in school, so no schedule | School schedule | “Their [sleep] is way more and better than mine, because they go to school. [T]hey have bedtimes and I don’t have one.” | |
| 15 (6) | Male (4) | 8:00pm/11:30pm - 6:00am/8:00am, three said 10:00pm or later | None mentioned | |
| Female (2) | 10:00pm/11:30pm - 6:00am/7:15am | None mentioned | ||
| 16 (4) | Male (2) | 11:00pm-4:00am/6:00am, one is not in school, so no schedule | Absence of parental rules, school schedule | “When it comes to my dad, he’s like sleep whenever you need to. As long as you’re up and you do what you need to do, you can sleep at whatever time. So my dad is very lenient. He doesn’t give me rules when it comes to sleep, but if it’s something important the next day, he will be like, “Okay. I usually don’t give you rules, but you need to be responsible and you just sleep at least by this time.” If I go past it, I’m not going to get in trouble, but I mean in the end, I suffered from it, so I understand.” |
| Female (2) | 8:30pm/11:00pm - 6:00am | Difficulty falling asleep | “For me, the right amount of sleep is like seven to eight hours of sleep, and I try to get that much. So like I usually will go to sleep like around 9:00 or 9:15, but now I kind of like limit myself and try to go to sleep light at 8:30 or 8:50 so that way I can go to sleep earlier.” | |
| WEEKENDS | ||||
| 12 (1) | Female (1) | Early bed time - early rise time | Hang out with friends | “Sometimes, I’m trying to go to sleep early because I would like get up early on a weekend and go hang out with my friends and we would like go some other places, and we would get home like later to the point where I have to sleep over.” |
| 13 (4) | Male (1) | 1:00am-2:00am | None mentioned | |
| Female (3) | Late bed time - 10:00am | None mentioned | ||
| 14 (11) | Male (7) | 12:00am/7:00am - unspecified rise time | Playing video games | “I’ll play with my cousin if he comes over and we’ll just stay up until around, I would say… One time I stayed up until 7:00. Sometimes I’ll stay up until 5:00 or 6:00.” |
| Female (4) | 11:00pm bed time - unspecified rise time (one respondent only) | None mentioned | ||
| 15 (6) | Male (4) | 12:00am - 11:00am | None mentioned | |
| Female (2) | None mentioned | None mentioned | ||
| 16 (4) | Male (2) | 12:00am/2:00am | Late night events, having no school schedule | “So we were there until 11:00. So we drive all the way back. So on the way back, I knocked out in the car. Then I got home around 12:20–12:30. And then the first thing I did was just get ready for sleep and knock out.” |
| Female (2) | 10:00pm bed time - unspecified rise time (one respondent only) | None mentioned | ||
| DESIRED SLEEP SCHEDULE | ||||
| 12 (1) | Female (1) | 9:00pm - 6:00am | “On like a school day I want to get my sleep, because we don’t really have that much time. We have to get up early. So she [my sister] knows that if she annoys me, somebody will walk in here and tell her to stop, because we have to go to bed very early and get up very early and get ready for school so we can get there on time.” | |
| 13 (4) | Male (1) | 9:00pm - 8:00am | ||
| Female (3) | None mentioned | |||
| 14 (11) | Male (7) | 9:00pm - 7:00am; 8:00pm8:00am; 11pm-11:00am; 7–8 hours; 9–10 hours | “I would suggest a good type of sleep is a sleep like around 8:00, I believe, is like the best time to sleep. Or 9:00. 8:00 or 9:00, so you can get… I think the daily amount a person should have to be able to sleep is like eight hours, so I usually get those eight hours. I think it’s better if you get more, like nine or ten.” | |
| Female (4) | 9:30pm - 9:00am; 9:00pm - 8:00am; 8–9 hours | |||
| 15 (6) | Male (4) | 12:00am - 11:00am; 9:00pm - 9:00am; at least 7–8 hours | ||
| Female (2) | None mentioned | |||
| 16 (4) | Male (2) | 1:00am - 10:00am/11:00am; at least 7 hours | ||
| Female (2) | 7–8 hours (one respondent only) | |||