Stress and Sleep Disturbances in Female College Students
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Objective To describe the sleep characteristics and examine the associations among perceived stress, sleep disturbances, depressive symptoms, and physical symptoms among female college students. Methods A total of 103 students completed a battery of questionnaires. Results The students experienced high stress during the school year. The majority of them slept less than 6 hours during weekdays and experienced moderate fatigue. High stress levels are associated with sleep disturbances, less nocturnal total sleep time, higher fatigue severity, and more depressive symptoms. Perceived stress and sleep disturbances are significant predictors for depressive symptoms and physical symptoms. Compared to the good sleepers, the poor sleepers reported more daytime sleepiness, depressive symptoms, and physical symptoms. Conclusions Interventions to reduce stress and improve sleep are critically needed in college education.
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“Self-perceived stress has been shown to result in poorer sleep in female university students from the United States (Lee, Wuertz, Rogers, & Chen, 2013;Wallace, Boynton, & Lytle, 2017), medical students from Saudi Arabia (Almojali, Almalki, Alothman, Masuadi, & Alaqeel, 2017), university students from Portugal (Amaral et al., 2017) and Pakistani medical school students (Waqas, Khan, Sharif, Khalid,”
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- Authors
- Lee, S.-Y., Wuertz, C., Rogers, R., & Chen, Y.-P.
- Affiliations
- Georgia State University (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Health Behavior
- Publisher
- JCFCorp SG PTE LTD
- Published
- 2013-11-01
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 851-858
- ISSN
- 1087-3244 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7359
- OpenAlex
- W1996575304
- Cited by
- 91
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 6.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Health Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Keywords
- perceived stress, sleep disorders, female university students, depressive symptoms, somatic symptoms, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, sleep duration, sleep quality
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sleep, Sleep Wake Disorders, Stress, Psychological, Students, Universities
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