Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students.

ABSTRACT: A substantial body of research indicates that higher education students from lower social class backgrounds tend to have poorer health than those from higher social class backgrounds. To investigate sleep as a potential mediator of this relationship, online survey responses of students from five large Australian universities, one Irish university and one large Australian technical college were analysed in three studies (Study 1 N = 628; Study 2 N = 376; Study 3 N = 446). The results revealed that sleep quality, sleep duration, sleep disturbances, pre-sleep worries and sleep schedule variability mediated the relationship between social class and physical and mental health. Sleep remained a significant mediator when controlling for related variables and other mediators. Thus, the findings su

SUBMITTER: McGuffog R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952763 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature