Sleep difficulties in college students: The role of stress, affect and cognitive processes
| Autor: | Ana Margarida Pinto, C. Roque, Maria João Soares, Nuno Madeira, Mariana Marques, Sandra Carvalho Bos, A.P. Amaral, Ana Telma Pereira, António Macedo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Sleep Wake Disorders 050103 clinical psychology Mediation (statistics) Adolescent Universities Affect (psychology) Self-Control 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Sleep difficulties Stress (linguistics) medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Association (psychology) Students Biological Psychiatry Portugal 05 social sciences Cognition Middle Aged Pessimism Psychiatry and Mental health Affect Rumination Cognitive Rumination Negative thinking Female medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry research. 260 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7123 |
| Popis: | Previous research indicates that sleep difficulties and stress are prevalent in college students. The main aim of the current study was to investigate the role of repetitive negative thinking (RNT), cognitive emotion regulation, and negative affect as mediators of the relationship between stress and sleep difficulties. We also intended to analyse the associations between all these variables and the gender differences. A sample of 549 college students completed self-report measures assessing the mentioned variables. Descriptive and correlational analyses showed significant differences between genders. In total sample, sleep difficulties were positively associated with perceived stress, negative affect, RNT and cognitive emotional strategies (rumination, self-blaming, catastrophizing, and acceptance). Mediation analyses suggested that in addition to the direct effect of stress on sleep difficulties, rumination and negative affect were important mediators in this relationship (after controlling gender). RNT did not mediate this association; however it was significantly associated to rumination and/or negative affect. These findings suggest that the effect of stress on sleep difficulties is strengthened by rumination and/or negative affect. The negative impact of RNT (content free) only occurs if associated to rumination and/or negative affect. |
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