scholarly journals Self-compassion and sleep quality: Examining the mediating role of taking a proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110471
Author(s):  
Brittany N Semenchuk ◽  
Samantha Onchulenko ◽  
Shaelyn M Strachan
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Sleep quality (SQ) impacts health yet many university students get poor sleep. Self-compassion (SC)—care for oneself during challenging times—is associated with SQ yet how SC has these effects is unclear. This study cross-sectionally examined whether SC is negatively related to poor SQ and whether proactive health focus and cognitive emotional regulation strategies (CERS) mediate this relationship. University students ( N = 193) self-reported SC, proactive health focus, CERS, and SQ. SC negatively associated with poor SQ ( r = −0.34) and self-blame mediated this ( b = 0.08, 95% CI [0.01, 0.16]). SC may improve SQ through reducing self-blame.

scholarly journals Sexual Violence and Mental Health: An Analysis of the Mediating Role of Self-Compassion Using a Feminist Lens

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110120
Author(s):  
Paige McAllister ◽  
Amber Vennum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Anxiety Depression

Feminist theories describe how women who experience sexual violence often internalize cultural narratives which can lead to self-blame and disconnection. Self-compassion has the potential to provide a buffer against these negative outcomes. This study explored self-compassion as a mediator of the association between experiencing sexual violence and negative mental health outcomes. The sample consisted of 368 undergraduate women. A path analysis revealed that experiencing sexual violence prior to the beginning of the semester was positively associated with self-criticism, anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms at the end of the semester directly and indirectly through self-compassion mid-semester. Clinical and research implications are also discussed.

scholarly journals Association with the Quality of Sleep and the Mediating Role of Eating on Self-Esteem in Healthcare Personnel

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Pérez-Fuentes ◽  
María Molero Jurado ◽  
Ana Barragán Martín ◽  
África Martos Martínez ◽  
José Gázquez Linares
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Poor Sleep Quality ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Nursing Professionals

In recent decades, organizational research has paid special attention to the mechanisms promoting the health and well-being of nursing professionals. In this context, self-esteem is a personal resource associated with well-being at work and the psychological well-being of nurses. The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating role of eating on the relationship between sleep quality and self-esteem in nursing professionals. A sample of 1073 nurses was administered the Rosenberg General Self-Esteem Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 (TFEQ-18). The results show that poor sleep quality and type of eating directly and indirectly affect self-esteem. Poor sleep quality lowered self-esteem through emotional eating and, even though emotional eating facilitated uncontrolled eating, this relationship had no significant effect on self-esteem. The findings of this study suggest that hospital management should implement employee health awareness programs on the importance of healthy sleep and design educational interventions for improving diet quality.

scholarly journals The Role of Sleep Quality in the Psychological Well-Being of Final Year UndergraduateStudents in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyu Zhai ◽  
Xing Gao ◽  
Geng Wang
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Poor Sleep Quality ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Normal Sleep

There are increasing numbers of university students in China suffering from poor sleep and psychological well-being problems. In particular, the issues are more severe among the final year undergraduate students, because they are experiencing a transitory period from university life to the workplace. However, extant research has rarely explored sleep quality and psychological well-being of final year university students. To better understand the role of sleep quality in psychological well-being, we examined the association between different sleep quality and mental health. Based on a cross-sectional survey of 2495 full-time final year university students in China, we employed multivariable logistic regression to assess association between sleep quality and psychological well-being by controlling for sociodemographic factors such as age, gender, education, marital or relationship status, household conditions, place of birth, study subjects and etc. According to the research results, we can find strong association between sleep quality and psychological well-being. Having normal sleep quality is associated with lower level of psychological well-being problems. By contrast, poor sleep quality is associated with high level of negative psychological well-being. Poor sleep quality has higher potency than normal sleep quality due to negative bias. Among covariates, age, gender and education have significant effects on psychological well-being.

Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students

2021 ◽  
pp. 008124632097852
Author(s):  
Lee R Nicholson ◽  
Raphaella Lewis ◽  
Kevin GF Thomas ◽  
Gosia Lipinska
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Poor Sleep Quality ◽  
Posttraumatic Symptoms ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Previous studies in the neuroscience and psychology literature works suggest that poor sleep quality is associated with emotion dysregulation, and that poor sleep quality and emotion dysregulation are, independently, associated with the presence and severity of psychiatric symptoms. However, no previous study has examined simultaneous relations among multiple different emotion regulation strategies, sleep quality, and mental health outcomes. Such investigations are particularly important given the extensive literature describing the prevalence and manifestation of poor mental health outcomes in university students. This study investigated the influence of both maladaptive (avoidance and impulsivity) and adaptive (cognitive reappraisal) emotion regulation strategies on sleep quality and, subsequently, on the degree of depressive and posttraumatic symptomatology in a sample of South African university students ( N = 336). Participants completed self-report instruments measuring their tendency to use avoidance, cognitive reappraisal, and impulsivity; their sleep quality; their accessibility to social support; and their number of depressive and posttraumatic symptoms. Structural equation modelling showed that more use of avoidance and impulsivity and less use of cognitive reappraisal negatively affected sleep quality, which, in turn, was associated with the presence of more depressive and more posttraumatic symptoms. Hence, our findings suggest that emotion regulation indirectly exerted its influence on the manifestation of psychiatric symptoms through sleep. We conclude that interventions targeted at improving sleep quality may prove beneficial in lessening the burden of depressive and posttraumatic symptoms in university students.

scholarly journals Emotional Regulation and Depression: A Potential Mediator between Heart and Mind

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Compare ◽  
Cristina Zarbo ◽  
Edo Shonin ◽  
William Van Gordon ◽  
Chiara Marconi
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Emotion Focused Therapy ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Physical Disorders ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Heart And Mind ◽  
The Relationship

A narrative review of the major evidence concerning the relationship between emotional regulation and depression was conducted. The literature demonstrates a mediating role of emotional regulation in the development of depression and physical illness. Literature suggests in fact that the employment of adaptive emotional regulation strategies (e.g., reappraisal) causes a reduction of stress-elicited emotions leading to physical disorders. Conversely, dysfunctional emotional regulation strategies and, in particular, rumination and emotion suppression appear to be influential in the pathogenesis of depression and physiological disease. More specifically, the evidence suggests that depression and rumination affect both cognitive (e.g., impaired ability to process negative information) and neurobiological mechanisms (e.g., hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis overactivation and higher rates of cortisol production). Understanding the factors that govern the variety of health outcomes that different people experience following exposure to stress has important implications for the development of effective emotion-regulation interventional approaches (e.g., mindfulness-based therapy, emotion-focused therapy, and emotion regulation therapy).

Perfectionism and adolescent sleep quality: The mediating role of repetitive negative thinking

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1626-1636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong-Mao Lin ◽  
Shan-Shan Xie ◽  
You-Wei Yan ◽  
Yu-Hsin Chen ◽  
Wen-Jing Yan
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Repetitive Negative Thinking ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Negative Thinking ◽  
Adolescent Sleep ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Adaptive Perfectionism

This study explores the mediating effects of repetitive negative thinking in the relationship between perfectionism and adolescent sleep quality. A sample of 1664 Chinese adolescents with a mean age of 15.0 years was recruited, and they completed four measures relating to perfectionism, sleep quality, worry, and rumination. The results showed that maladaptive perfectionism was positively correlated with poor sleep quality in adolescents, which was mediated by both worry and rumination. However, adaptive perfectionism was not significantly associated with adolescent sleep quality, and this relationship was suppressed by rumination (but not worry). The implications of these results are also discussed.

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