The interrelationship between sleep disturbance symptoms and aggression before and after the campus closure of the COVID-19 pandemic: insight from a cross-lagged panel network model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic is detrimental to sleep quality and increases aggression among college students. Nevertheless, relevant studies were rare. Hence, we collected longitudinal data during and post-campus closure in the current study to investigate the relationship between sleep disturbance and aggression.

Methods

Data from 665 college students (59.2% females, Mean_age = 19.01, SD _age = 1.25) were collected before (wave 1) and after (wave 2) the campus closure of COVID-19. All participants were asked to fill out the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire and the Youth Self-Rating Insomnia Scale. Two symptom networks and a cross-lagged panel network were formed and tested.

Results

Hostility has the highest centrality in the symptom

SUBMITTER: Zou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10991807 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature