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Home LivingWellnessSleepWhy do teenagers sleep late?Is it laziness or is it science? We take a look at why teens are more likely to go to bed late and refuse to get up in the morningsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Is it laziness or is it science? We take a look at why teens are more likely to go to bed late and refuse to get up in the mornings
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Researchers argued that based on those results, 20 could be considered “the first biological marker of the end of adolescence”. There was also a gender split recorded, with males participants being on average, later chronotypes for most of their adulthood, but reaching the peak of their lateness at an older age than the females (19 and a half, compared to 21 for females). That difference disappeared around the age of 50.
There are potential issues to consider, though. The paper acknowledges that “Our data also cannot formally rule out behavioural and environmental factors influencing the age- and sex-dependent differences in chronotype; i.e. do teenagers sleep late because they go to the disco or do they go to the disco because they cannot sleep until late?”
Other sources point out that there are multiple other factors, tied to typical teenage lifestyle patterns, that could also play a role in the tendency to stay up late, and sleep late to make up for it – for example, high levels of screen use and social events in the evenings. What is cause and what is effect isn’t clear-cut.
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