Daily relations between nap occurrence, duration, and timing and nocturnal sleep patterns in college students.

ABSTRACT:

Objective/design

Sleep patterns change during college, and students may nap to compensate for lost sleep. Despite the increased prevalence of napping among students, few studies have investigated daily relations between napping and nocturnal sleep, as well as how timing of naps and nocturnal sleep might influence one another. The present study used daily diaries to capture the occurrence, timing, and duration of napping and relation to nocturnal sleep.

Setting/participants

Daily diary data, collected for 4-7 days, from 654 college students from a mid-sized midwestern university (81.5% female).

Measurement

Participants reported nightly sleep durations, bedtimes, and wake times as well as nap durations and nap start times.

Results

Multilevel modeling (MLM) and mu

SUBMITTER: Rea EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9378669 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature