Influence of Sleeping Patterns in Health and Academic Performance Among University Students

Toscano-Hermoso, María Dolores; Arbinaga, Félix; Ozcorta, Eduardo José Fernández; Gómez‐Salgado, Juan; Ruiz‐Frutos, Carlos

doi:10.3390/ijerph17082760

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“…Other processes could also underpin relationships between nightmare proneness, nightmare frequency, and insomnia. For instance, all three variables have been associated with an evening chronotype (Nielsen, 2010; Ong et al, 2007; Toscano-Hermoso et al, 2020). It is possible that variations in the sleep–wake cycle and associated physiological processes involving the suprachiasmatic nucleus are important in the interrelationships between nightmare proneness, insomnia, and nightmare frequency (Roenneberg et al, 2007).…”

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“…In this approach, mediation is considered significant if zero is not included in the 95% bias-corrected confidence interval of the indirect effect (Preacher & Hayes, 2008). Given past findings of associations with gender (Schredl & Reinhard, 2011; Toscano-Hermoso et al, 2020), it was used as a covariate along with neuroticism and negative response bias in the mediation analyses. Cohen’s (1988) f 2 was used to determine effects sizes for the full models predicting each insomnia marker: .02, .15, and .35 denote small, medium, and large effects, respectively.…”

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“…Its reflection of generalized hyperarousal, versus emotional hyperarousal, might account for findings that nightmare proneness predicts nightmares above neuroticism. Nightmare proneness has also been associated with an evening chronotype (Toscano-Hermoso et al, 2020) and physical inactivity (Arbinaga et al, 2019), suggesting the influence of, or sensitivity to, physiological mechanisms.…”

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Bad dreams and bad sleep: Relationships between nightmare frequency, insomnia, and nightmare proneness.

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2022

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Previous research consistently found a relationship between nightmares and insomnia. The aim of the current study was to investigate how nightmare proneness, a disposition to experience frequent nightmares partly reflecting hyperarousal, might influence this relationship among 339 university students. After controlling for gender, neuroticism, and negative response bias, mediation models found that nightmare proneness had direct relationships with insomnia markers. Nightmare frequency partially mediated nightmare proneness for difficulty initiating sleep, maintaining sleep, and returning to sleep after waking but not early morning wakenings. The results suggested that nightmare proneness directly influences insomnia markers outside of nightmare frequency, neuroticism, negative responding, and gender and partly influences difficulty initiating sleep, maintaining sleep, and returning to sleep after waking through nightmare occurrences. The findings provide additional evidence for a relationship between nightmares and insomnia and suggest that nightmare proneness could be a factor in this relationship. Suggestions for future research are offered.

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“…In the last decade, a number of studies on the interaction between subjective sleep and academic achievement of university students have emerged. Ahrberg et al (2012) , Baert et al (2015) , and Toscano-Hermoso et al (2020) reported a positive relationship between sleep quality and academic scores. Gomes et al (2011) found poor sleep quality and insufficient sleep to be significantly associated with poorer academic performance.…”

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Sleep, Well-Being and Academic Performance: A Study in a Singapore Residential College

2021

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We examined the relationship between sleep and the affective components of subjective well-being as well as psychological well-being, and between sleep and academic performance, of full-time undergraduate students in a residential college at the National University of Singapore. The aspects of sleep considered were self-reported sleep duration, sleep efficiency, frequency of sleep disturbances, daytime dysfunction, sleep latency and overall sleep quality, as measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Academic performance was measured using self-reported cumulative average point scores, typically known as grade point average in other institutions. Psychological well-being and the affective components of subjective well-being were assessed using the Flourishing Scale and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience, respectively. With the exception of sleep latency, our univariate analysis revealed significant associations between the abovementioned facets of sleep, and the affective components of subjective well-being. The analysis also revealed significant associations between the above sleep variables and psychological well-being, except sleep latency and frequency of sleep disturbances. Only daytime dysfunction was found to be significantly correlated with academic performance in our univariate analysis. In addition, our multivariate analysis shows that psychological well-being, affect balance and academic performance each has a direct effect on overall sleep quality. The relationship between overall sleep quality and psychological well-being is U-shaped, while that between overall sleep quality and affect balance is linear and moderated by psychological well-being. The relationship between overall sleep quality and academic performance is either U-shaped or an inverted-U, depending on the level of psychological well-being, which moderates the relationship. These nonlinear relationships indicate that individuals with the highest levels of psychological well-being are not the best sleepers (in terms of overall sleep quality), neither are the highest academic achievers necessarily the best sleepers.

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“…For example, in a study by Kamimura et al (2000) [ 11 ], 61% of female college students were evening-types. Moreover, compared to their male counterparts, female students took longer to fall asleep after going to bed, had poorer quality of sleep [ 21 , 22 ], and had worse overall sleeping conditions [ 2 ]. Many studies have reported that evening-type sleep habits were related to uncomfortable psychosomatic symptoms, particularly in young women.…”

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The mediating effect of cognitive appraisal on the relationship between sleep habits and the stress response among Japanese female college students

Aizawa

Omori

2021

BMC Psychol

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Background Undergraduate students tend to develop “evening-type” sleep patterns. Recent research has reported that evening-type and irregular sleep habits are related to physical and mental stress responses, particularly in female students. Although the connection between sleep habits and the stress response has been well documented, the mechanism behind this relationship is currently unknown. Using the transactional model as a framework and female students as our target population, we examined whether sleep habits predict the stress response through the mediation of cognitive appraisals of one’s own sleep habits. Methods Three hundred twenty-one Japanese female college students participated in this study. Participants completed measures of their sleep habits (sleep patterns and sleep irregularity), cognitive appraisals of their sleep habits (including four subscales: commitment, appraisal of influence, appraisal of threat, and controllability), stress responses (depression and anxiety), and control factors. The reliability and validity of the scales used in this study, except for sleep pattern and sleep irregularity, were confirmed in previous studies. Results Multiple-mediation-model analysis indicated that commitment mediates the relationship between sleep pattern and anxiety. Meanwhile, cognitive appraisals, as a whole, were found to have a mediating effect on the relationship between sleep irregularity and depression. Conclusions Our study revealed that cognitive appraisals mediated the relationship between sleep habits and the stress response. The findings also suggest that maintaining a low level of commitment might be effective for reducing anxiety, especially considering the difficulty associated with changing lifestyles. The findings of the present study should be useful for health education related to lifestyle.

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Influence of Sleeping Patterns in Health and Academic Performance Among University Students

Cited by 30 publications

References 64 publications

Bad dreams and bad sleep: Relationships between nightmare frequency, insomnia, and nightmare proneness.

Bad dreams and bad sleep: Relationships between nightmare frequency, insomnia, and nightmare proneness.

Sleep, Well-Being and Academic Performance: A Study in a Singapore Residential College

The mediating effect of cognitive appraisal on the relationship between sleep habits and the stress response among Japanese female college students

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