Michelle Carr, Westley Youngren, Martin Seehuus, Raphaëlle Semin, Emma Angle, Wilfred R Pigeon
{"title":"The Effects of Lucid Dreaming and Nightmares on Sleep Quality and Mental Health Outcomes.","authors":"Michelle Carr, Westley Youngren, Martin Seehuus, Raphaëlle Semin, Emma Angle, Wilfred R Pigeon","doi":"10.1080/15402002.2024.2423297","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15402002.2024.2423297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study aimed to investigate relationships between lucid dreaming and sleep and mental health outcomes within a representative sample of the general population. We also sought to examine how nightmares interact with the relationship between lucid dreaming, sleep, and mental health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants (<i>N</i> = 1332) completed measures of lucid dream frequency, nightmare frequency, anxiety and depressive symptoms, stress, and sleep quality. Hierarchical regression models were conducted, where step-1 examined the direct effect of lucid dreaming on all outcome variables, and step-2 added nightmares into the equation (to examine direct effects of lucid dreaming frequency and nightmares, and the indirect effect of nightmares).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Step-1 results demonstrated that lucid dreaming positively predicted poor sleep quality, stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Step-2 results revealed that nightmares were the only significant predictor of poor sleep quality, stress, and anxiety symptoms, accounting for all of the variance of lucid dreaming. Nightmares and the interaction of nightmares and lucid dreaming positively predicted depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results suggest that nightmares alone explain associations between lucid dreaming and poor sleep quality, anxiety symptoms, and stress. However, both nightmares and the combination of nightmares and lucid dreaming are associated with increased depressive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":55393,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sleep Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing Bedtime Procrastination in Iran: Psychometric Properties and Predictive Value for Insomnia.","authors":"Amirhossein Rasouli, Hatef Tirgari Seraji, Zahra Nejad-Ebrahim Soumee, Sima Jahanbakhsh, Vahide Javadi, Omid Saed","doi":"10.1080/15402002.2024.2423291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2024.2423291","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Bedtime procrastination has been identified as an important factor associated with insufficient sleep and health and well-being problems. This study aims to investigate factor structure and psychometric properties of Bedtime procrastination Scale (BPS) in the Persian-speaking community. Additionally, this research aims to examine the role of bedtime procrastination in predicting sleep-related problems.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Four hundred and thirty-three participants (average age 23 years, 55.7% female) took part in this study. All participants completed the BPS, the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), and the Tuckman Procrastination Scale (TPS). Confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were used to examine the factor structure and predict sleep-related problems.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Confirmatory factor analysis showed that, unlike other language versions, the two-factor model without item 3 was the most suitable structure. This scale demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity. Additionally, the results of hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the procrastination factor, especially bedtime procrastination, was the best predictor of insomnia severity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this study, the Persian version of BPS showed strong validity and reliability. These findings suggest that the Persian BPS can serve as a valuable and comprehensive research tool for assessing bedtime procrastination.</p>","PeriodicalId":55393,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sleep Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship Between Intraindividual Sleep-Wake Variability and Mental Health in Adolescents.","authors":"Misol Kwon, Young S Seo, Brant P Hasler","doi":"10.1080/15402002.2024.2425961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2024.2425961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We investigated the relationship between irregular sleep-wake patterns and other aspects of sleep and mental health among adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Community-based sample of adolescents (<i>n</i> = 200, mean age 16.8; 61.7% female) completed baseline assessment (i.e. sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, depressive symptoms, social anhedonia, problematic alcohol use), and 7-8 consecutive days of wearing wrist actigraphy. Irregular sleep-wake patterns were assessed via two methods, both based on actigraphy, to capture day-to-day irregularity (intraindividual variability, IIV) and weekly irregularity (social jet lag, SJL). The Bayesian variability method was performed to calculate IIV in total sleep time (TST), sleep onset, and offset time. SJL was quantified as the actual difference in the sleep midpoint on school days versus non-school days.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Greater IIV in TST was associated with poorer sleep quality (B = 1.66, 95% CI, 0.14, 3.31, <i>p</i> < .05), and greater depressive symptoms (B = 0.72, 95% CI, 0.17, 1.35, <i>p</i> < .05), while greater IIV in sleep offset time was associated greater depressive symptoms (B = 0.63, 95% CI, 0.03, 1.28, <i>p</i> < .05), and greater problematic alcohol use (B = 0.70, 95% CI, 0.12, 1.35, <i>p</i> < .05), all after adjusting for age, sex, family SES, alcohol drinks, and SJL. No significant association was found with sleep onset time. Greater SJL was associated with poorer sleep quality (B = 0.40, 95% CI, 0.27, 0.54, <i>p</i> < .001) and fewer problematic alcohol uses (B = -0.05, 95% CI, -0.09, -0.00, <i>p</i> < .05), when adjusting for age, sex, family SES, and alcohol drinks.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings add to a growing body of research on irregularity in sleep-wake patterns and clinical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":55393,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral Sleep Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}