Investigating the relationship between bedtime procrastination, psychological stress, and mental health among Saudi undergraduate (Preprint)
BACKGROUND This study aimed to explore the relationship between bedtime procrastination, stress, and well-being among Saudi undergraduates. OBJECTIVE we want to see if bedtime delay is a new phenomenon that adds to the literature on procrastination in sleep among Saudi Arabian students. METHODS Participants from Saudi Arabia (N=536; 324 males, 60.4%; 212 females, 39.6%; M age = 24.27, SD = 5.62). Participants completed online questionnaires on the Bedtime Procrastination Scale (BPS), Stress Scale (SS), and Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF). RESULTS As hypothesized, results show that the Non-stressed were higher well-being more than the Stressed group, but the Stressed group was higher bedtime procrastination more than the Non-stressed. Additionally, results showed that bedtime procrastination was correlated positively with stress, and negatively with mental well-being. Moreover, males were higher bedtime procrastination than female; Orders are more bedtime procrastinating than youngers; students who live alone are more bedtime procrastinating than ones live with their family; students who live in the countryside are more bedtime procrastinating than who live in the city, and married students are more bedtime procrastinate than unmarried CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that bedtime delay is an important variable related to stress and defecting in well-being. procrastinators have risk-taking behaviors that can be included psychological problems.