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The Relationship of Stress & Coping Style to Reported Sleep Adequacy in MU Students

The Relationship of Stress & Coping Style to Reported Sleep Adequacy in MU Students. Francis W. Craig & The Experimental Methods Class (Spring 99) Mansfield University. Reduced Sleep is Unhealthy. General effects of reduced sleep on health, behavior $15.9 billion in health care costs

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The Relationship of Stress & Coping Style to Reported Sleep Adequacy in MU Students

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  1. The Relationship of Stress & Coping Style to Reported Sleep Adequacy in MU Students Francis W. Craig & The Experimental Methods Class (Spring 99) Mansfield University

  2. Reduced Sleep is Unhealthy • General effects of reduced sleep on health, behavior • $15.9 billion in health care costs • cognitive abilities/traffic accident/gen prod. • Effects of reduced sleep on lives of college aged students- increasing prob. • poor grades, greater stress • greater accident, lower QOL

  3. [narrowing the scope]A Health Problem in Students • Environmental and Social Conditions contribute to loss of sleep (Carscaddon, 1991) For instance • Dorm Life • Relationship Difficulties • Poor Time Management • Assignments with Time Pressure • Not all students experiencing these conditions “lose sleep”. Why?

  4. Coping Styles May Affect Sleep Quantity • Students at higher risk that sleep well may “cope” differently than those that don’t. • Report of Less Sleep = Poorer coping • (Hall & Johnson, 1995) 82 students • sleep decrease , task focused styles decreased and emotion focused increased.

  5. Hypotheses • Hypotheses • #1: Task Focused Coping Lower • #2: Emotion Focused coping Higher • #3: Avoidance Coping Higher • #4: Stress Higher

  6. Study Design Initial Sample N=180 Good Sleep N= 85 Select All 22 years or less N= 150 Poor Sleep N= 65 Dependent Variables Emotion, Problem Avoidance Coping Analyses: T-tests

  7. Age 19.8 (.45) Male 65 Female 85 Race: 110 Caucasian 20 Afr. Amer. 10 Asian 10 Other Perceived Sleep Quality 85 adequate 65 inadequate Participant Demographics

  8. Results:Coping .001 NS .05

  9. Results:Reported Life Stress P<.01

  10. Discussion of Results • Reported Sleep Quality is related to emotion, but not task focused coping. • Emotion sleep depriving (rumination), task-focus not sleep enhancing • Reported sleep is related to an avoidant style of handling problems • go to bed when not sleepy.. Decrease association of bed with sleep (Duncan, 1997) • Poor sleep is related in increased life stress across control and demand dimensions

  11. Future Directions & Conclusions • Limitations: Chicken or Egg; Sampling • Strengths: Sample size • Future: Longitudinal Analysis to get at whether stress/coping causes or results from decreased sleep • Contribution:

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