Weekday-to-Weekend Sleep Differences and Poor Mental Health in Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to investigate associations between weekday-to-weekend sleep differences and mental health and examine whether the association varies by weekday sleep duration among young adults in South Korea.

Methods

We used the Survey of Korean Youths' Lives, a nationally representative data for young adults aged 19-34 years in South Korea. Weekday-to-weekend sleep differences were calculated by the difference between sleep durations on weekends (or free days) and those on weekdays (or working days). Indicators of mental health included unhappiness, life dissatisfaction, burnout, depression, and suicide ideation. A logistic regression analysis was conducted to investigate associations between weekday-to-weekend sleep differences and mental health. We stratified respon

SUBMITTER: Choi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12401739 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature