... as adolescents try to keep up with their commitments leading to increasingly later bedtimes. * The average teenage student gets about 2 hours less sleep a night during school terms than the acceptable amount of 9 hours 12 minutes in the holidays. * Social factors - school demands, homework, extra-curricula activities, social and family commitments and part-time work - have been identified as the cause for reduction in adolescent normal sleep-times. * The effects of sleep deprivation, reported by adolescence during the school term are - o lower moods o problems waking up o daytime sleepiness o difficulties with concentration and attention o clumsiness o irritability and difficulty controlling emotions o impairment of daytime functioning o lower grades o sleeping problems - eg. difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep * Effects of sleep deprivation are worse for 'evening' style adolescents * Some researches believe chronically short and erratic sleep may be linked to the depressive symptoms in adolescents. Part B: Write an ...

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