TY - JOUR AU - Beebe, Dean W. AB - pii: sp - 0 03 47-16 ht t p: //d x .do i .o r g /10 . 5 6 6 5 /sle e p. 6 0 0 2 C OMM E N TA R Y Commentary on Ojio et al. Sleep duration associated with the lowest risk of depression/anxiety in adolescents. SLEEP 2016;39(8):1555–1562. Dean W. Beebe, PhD Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Within the past year, the e fi ld has developed three major sets of to do with the larger context in which research is conducted: sleep recommendations for children and adolescents, with two the vast majority of similar studies have been conducted by 1–3 of the three emerging in the summer of 2016. While coming researchers from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, to slightly varied conclusions, all have been based upon a com- and Democratic (WEIRD) societies, on WEIRD samples, pilation of expert opinion derived from the available research and using constructs and measurement paradigms that are literature. The process is more deliberate and systematic than so deeply rooted in WEIRD epistemologies as to give an 8,9 prior guideline development, but is intrinsically limited by the illusion of universality. TI - WEIRD Considerations When Studying Adolescent Sleep Need JF - SLEEP DO - 10.5665/sleep.6002 DA - 2016-08-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/weird-considerations-when-studying-adolescent-sleep-need-Ul3mUSoBGj SP - 1491 EP - 1492 VL - 39 IS - 8 DP - DeepDyve ER -