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  • High levels of stress are common among college students, and inadequate sleep can increase their stress vulnerability; this study investigates how self-control and resilience impact this relationship.
  • A survey and wristband tracking were used to analyze the sleep quality and duration of 32 first-year students, revealing significant correlations between perceived stress and factors like resilience, self-control, and sleep duration.
  • The results indicate that resilience mediates the relationship between sleep and perceived stress, while self-control directly influences resilience, highlighting the importance of good sleep for enhancing stress resilience in students.*

Article Abstract

Background: High levels of stress are frequent in university education, and a lack of sleep has been reported to make students more vulnerable to stress. The mechanisms through which sleep harms students have not been sufficiently clarified; therefore, this study aimed to explore the mediating role of self-control and resilience in the relationship between sleep quality and duration and perceived stress.

Methods: Of 32 first-year college students, 21 (78%) were women, with a mean age of 18.47 (±0.84). They responded to a self-administered survey that included questions on stress, resilience, and sleep quality and recorded their daily sleep duration using a wristband for six days.

Results: Perceived stress was significantly correlated with resilience (r = -0.63), self-control (r = -0.46), sleep duration (r = -0.35), and lower sleep quality (r = 0.57). Path analysis revealed that self-control and resilience were partially mediated by sleep quality (R = 0.62; < 0.01) and completely mediated by sleep duration (R = 0.46; < 0.01). In both models, self-control had a direct effect on resilience and had a good-fit index.

Conclusion: Being resilient seems to play a mediating role in the relationship between sleep and perceived stress; this ability can be favored by self-control, which is directly influenced by sleep.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10454638PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20166560DOI Listing

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