Self-compassion and sleep quality: Examining the mediating role of taking a proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies.

Sleep quality (SQ) impacts health yet many university students get poor sleep. Self-compassion (SC)-care for oneself during challenging times-is associated with SQ yet SC has these effects is unclear. This study cross-sectionally examined whether SC is negatively related to poor SQ and whether proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies (CERS) mediate this relationship.