The relation among sleep duration, homework burden, and sleep hygiene in Chinese school-aged children
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Insufficient sleep in school-aged children is common in modern society, with homework burden being a potential risk factor. The aim of this article is to explore the effect of sleep hygiene on the association between homework and sleep duration. Children filled out the Chinese version of the Adolescent Sleep Hygiene Scale, and parents filled out a sociodemographic questionnaire. The final sample included 363 boys and 371 girls with a mean age of 10.82 ± 0.38 years. Children with more homework went to bed later and slept less. Better sleep hygiene was associated with earlier bedtimes and longer sleep duration. Findings suggest that homework burden had a larger effect on sleep duration than sleep hygiene. Fifth-grade children in Shanghai have an excessive homework burden, which overwrites the benefit of sleep hygiene on sleep duration.
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More time spent on homework is associated with later bedtimes and less nocturnal sleep in school-aged children and adolescents.
“Our findings are consistent with previous work in school-aged children and adolescents showing that more time spent on homework associated with later bedtimes and less nocturnal sleep.12- 14,16,29,32-34”
From Associations of time spent on homework or studying with nocturnal sleep behavior and depression symptoms in adolescents from Singapore (2020) · cites this paper as [32]
These findings are consistent with previous research in Asian students, whose sleep duration associated more strongly with homework time compared with media use or sleep hygiene practices.
“These findings are consistent with previous research in Asian students, whose sleep duration associated more strongly with homework time compared with media use or sleep hygiene practices.12,32,34,42”
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- Authors
- Sun, W.-Q., Spruyt, K., Chen, W.-J., Jiang, Y.-R., Schonfeld, D., Adams, R., Tseng, C.-H., Shen, X.-M., & Jiang, F.
- Affiliations
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Corresponding author
- Jiang, Fan
- Venue
- Behavioral Sleep Medicine
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-11-04
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 398-411
- ISSN
- 1540-2002 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-2010
- OpenAlex
- W2020598575
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 1.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behavioral Sleep Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
- VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Keywords
- sleep duration, homework burden, sleep hygiene, school-aged children, bedtime, insufficient sleep, Chinese children
- MeSH terms
- Child, China, Curriculum, Female, Humans, Male, Mental Health, Parents, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Time Factors, Cost of Illness, Asian People
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