Sleep, Affect, and Emotion Reactivity in First-Year College Students: A Daily Diary Study.
Background: Sleep is an important factor in well-being, especially during the transition to college when academic and social commitments increase. Identifying factors that contribute to poor sleep (including short duration and increased variability in duration) can support development of interventio...
| Published in: | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 753 - 769 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=172343186&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 172343186 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10705503 7M2 jtl: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine issn: 10705503 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2023 vid: 30 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 172343186 172343186 172343186 10.1007/s12529-022-10127-0 172343186 ppf: 753 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Sleep, Affect, and Emotion Reactivity in First-Year College Students: A Daily Diary Study. aug: au: Rea, Elizabeth M. DeCarlo Santiago, Catherine Nicholson, Laura Heard Egbert, Amy Bohnert, Amy M. affil: https://ror.org/04b6x2g63 Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA sug: subj: Affect Sleep Emotions Sleep Duration Students, College Psychosocial Factors Human Male Female Questionnaires Diaries Anxiety Depression Transition to Adulthood Adaptation, Psychological Mental Disorders Risk Factors Midwestern United States Urban Areas Self Report Scales Psychological Tests Descriptive Statistics Adolescence Adult Residence Characteristics Social Class Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance Post Hoc Analysis Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Models, Statistical Multiple Regression Psychopathology Funding Source Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Background: Sleep is an important factor in well-being, especially during the transition to college when academic and social commitments increase. Identifying factors that contribute to poor sleep (including short duration and increased variability in duration) can support development of interventions. Affect and emotion reactivity are factors that could contribute to sleep, and have not been studied in relation to sleep variables among first-year college students during their adjustment to the college environment. This adjustment might be difficult for some students, and therefore elicit affect fluctuations that contribute to poor sleep. Alternatively, sleep could contribute to daily affect. The present daily diary study examined bidirectional relations between daily sleep and affect, as well as between emotion reactivity and sleep (duration and variability) and affect (daily and overall variability) in first-year college students. Method: First-year college students (n = 244; 86.1% female) completed a baseline survey including measures of emotion reactivity and anxiety and depressive symptoms, followed by 7 days of a once-per-day diary, reporting on their affect and sleep duration. Results: On days when individuals reported increased sleep duration, they also tended to experience greater positive affect the following day (p =.01). Those who experienced high levels of emotion reactivity also experienced more negative affect (p <.001) and negative affect variability (p <.001). Conclusion: Emotion reactivity might identify college students who experience more negative affect and are possibly at risk to develop mental health disorders. The importance of sleep health should continue to be emphasized to students as they transition to college. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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