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To examine the role of adolescents’ and their parents’ sleep quality as mediators of family-level processes and family members’ psychological distress (ie, anxiety/depressive symptoms).

Short-term prospective design with an initial survey followed by a 7-day twice-daily (morning and evening) diary.

Online survey for high school students and their parents across the United States.

A total of 193 adolescent (M_age = 15.7 years old, standard deviation = 0.94; 54.4% female) and parent (M_age = 47.6 years old, standard deviation = 5.4; 80% female) dyads.

In the initial survey, adolescents reported on family dysfunction, parent-child relationship quality, and parents reported on their own romantic relationship satisfaction. Both adolescents and parents reported their daily levels of sleep quality (morning diaries) and their psychological distress (evening diaries) for 7 days …