scholarly journals Accept Anxiety to Improve Sleep: The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Relationships between Mindfulness, Distress and Sleep Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 13149
Author(s):  
Marco Mirolli ◽  
Luca Simione ◽  
Monica Martoni ◽  
Marco Fabbri
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Dispositional Mindfulness ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Improve Sleep Quality ◽  
The Impact

It has been recently proposed that mindfulness can improve sleep quality through the mediating role on psychological distress and that acceptance may play a pivotal role in mindfulness beneficial effects. The aim of the present work was to understand the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on dispositional mindfulness, sleep, and distress, and on their relationships. In particular, we wanted to test the hypothesis that the detrimental effects of lockdown on sleep depended on mindfulness and distress (including anxiety and depression) and that the acceptance facet of mindfulness played the leading role. A longitudinal study based on self-report questionnaires was conducted on 39 Italian adults (M age = 35.03, SD = 14.02; 21 men) assessing mindfulness, distress, and sleep quality before (23 December 2019–8 March 2020) and during (27 April 2020–10 May 2020) the first Italian COVID-19 lockdown. Lockdown decreased mindfulness while increasing distress and sleep problems. Path analysis showed that the effects of lockdown on sleep were fully mediated by mindfulness and distress. Furthermore, a more detailed analysis showed that these effects were mainly dependent on the acceptance component of mindfulness working through anxiety. The present study confirms, in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, a model according to which mindfulness, and specifically acceptance, influences sleep through the mediating role of distress.

Burnout Among Primary Government School Teachers: The Mediating Role of Work– Family Conflict

2020 ◽  
pp. 097168582095398
Author(s):  
Arjun Chakravorty ◽  
Pankaj Singh
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Government School ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Impact

Although the impact of job demands and work–family conflict (WFC) on burnout has been extensively discussed and analysed in the past literature, the role of WFC as a generative mechanism has been neglected. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effects of WFC between job demands and burnout. The studied sample consisted of 713 Indian primary school government teachers who completed a self-report questionnaire assessing job demands, WFC and burnout. The results confirmed that WFC partially mediates the adverse association of job demands with burnout. Primary schools should, therefore, be encouraged to provide effective practices to manage work–family interfaces.

scholarly journals The Impact of Work Stress on Job Satisfaction and Sleep Quality for Couriers in China: The Role of Psychological Capital

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujin Xie ◽  
Jing Tian ◽  
Yang Jiao ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Hong Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

Objective: Work stress is one of the urgent public health problems, which has aroused wide attention. In addition, work stress also has a negative impact on the development of enterprises. This study has three purposes: (1) to understand the current status of working stress among couriers, (2) to examine the association between work stress, job satisfaction and sleep quality of Chinese couriers, and (3) to verify the mediating role of psychological capital.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 3000 couriers in Beijing of China from January to December 2019 using cluster stratified random sampling. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to describe demographic characteristics of respondents. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation among work stress, job satisfaction, sleep quality, and psychological capital. The mediating analysis was calculated role of psychological capital.Results: A total of 2831 participants were included in this study. The average score of work stress was 2.49 ± 0.76. Work stress was negatively correlated with job satisfaction (r = −0.266, P < 0.01), sleep quality (r = –0.142, P < 0.01), and psychological capital (r = −0.268, P < 0.01), respectively. The direct effect of work stress on job satisfaction is –0.223, and the total effect of work stress on job satisfaction is –0.267. The a*b*c’ is positive, indicating the mediating role psychological capital has in explaining the relationship between couriers’ work stress and job satisfaction. Moreover, psychological capital plays a mediating role between work stress and sleep quality among couriers.Conclusion: Couriers face certain work stress and should be paid attention to and psychological capital can effectively alleviate the work stress of couriers, so measures can be taken to improve it, promoting healthy development of employees and organizations.

scholarly journals Sleep quality among individuals with ketamine use and the mediating role of craving

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Fang Yen ◽  
Huang-Chi Lin ◽  
Chih-Hung Ko ◽  
Hung-Chi Wu ◽  
Chih-Yao Hsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Poor Sleep Quality ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cognitive Problems ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractSleep problems are common in Taiwan. Poor sleep may be associated with many illnesses, including substance use disorders. Ketamine use disorder has significantly increased in Taiwan in recent years and may lead to physical and cognitive problems. Craving for ketamine is a risk factor for ketamine use and relapse, and poor sleep quality may increase craving. This study aimed to explore the mediating effects of craving on the relationship between poor sleep quality and ketamine use. Demographic data, sleep quality, severity of dependence and craving were recorded for current ketamine users and abstinent ketamine users. Mediation analysis was used to examine the mediating effect of craving on the relationship between poor sleep and ketamine use. This study enrolled 414 current ketamine users with ketamine use disorder, 238 current ketamine users without ketamine use disorder, and 102 abstinent ketamine users with ketamine use disorder. Compared with healthy controls, all ketamine users had poor sleep quality. Poor sleep quality was associated with the initiation of and dependence on ketamine use. Craving can mediate the relationship between poor sleep quality and ketamine use. Poor sleep quality remains a problem for those abstaining from ketamine use. Poor sleep quality in ketamine users is an important issue because it is directly and indirectly through craving associated with ketamine use.

scholarly journals Mindfulness Increases the Belief in Climate Change: The Mediating Role of Connectedness With Nature

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Wang ◽  
Liuna Geng ◽  
P. Wesley Schultz ◽  
Kexin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Change Beliefs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The current article explores the impact of mindfulness on belief in climate change and the mediating effect of connectedness with nature in this relationship. Belief in climate change was assessed both explicitly (using a self-report questionnaire) and implicitly (using an Implicit Association Test [IAT]). A total of 103 university students were recruited for a between-subjects experiment. Participants were randomly assigned to a mindfulness or mindlessness intervention and then completed IAT and several questionnaires. The results showed that mindfulness significantly increased belief in climate change, both explicitly and implicitly. Our findings also showed that the relationship between mindfulness and climate change beliefs was mediated by an increase in connectedness with nature. These results indicate that mindfulness is an effective way to promote belief in climate change and that connectedness with nature plays an important role in this process.

scholarly journals Internalizing Early Memories of Shame and Lack of Safeness and Warmth: The Mediating Role of Shame on Depression

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Matos ◽  
José Pinto-Gouveia ◽  
Cristiana Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Early Memories ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Background:Growing evidence supports the association between early memories of shame and lack of safeness and current shame and depression. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether shame serves as a mediator between such early memories and depressive symptoms.Aims:This study aimed at testing whether the impact of shame traumatic memory, centrality of shame memory, early memories of warmth and safeness (predictors), on depressive symptoms (outcome) would be mediated by current external and internal shame.Method:Student participants (N= 178) recalled an early shame experience and completed self-report instruments measuring centrality and traumatic characteristics of the shame memory, early memories of warmth and safeness, external and internal shame and depressive symptoms.Results:Path analysis’ results revealed that internal shame fully mediated the relationship between shame traumatic memory, centrality of shame memory, and early memories of warmth and safeness, and depression. However, current feelings of external shame, highly linked to internal shame, did not significantly predict depression.Conclusion:These findings shed light on the role of internalizing early shame and lack of safeness memories into a sense of self as globally self-condemning in the vulnerability to experience depressive symptoms.

scholarly journals Impact of Self-Generated Thoughts on Anxiety Symptoms Among University Students: Mediating Role of Rumination

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Iqra Kiran ◽  
Sadaf Ahsan ◽  
Sadaf Zaheer ◽  
Ayisha Naz
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Response Scale ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of self-generated thoughts (daydreaming) on symptoms of anxiety among university students. Furthermore, mediating role of rumination was also studied. A sample of 300 university students aged 18-28 years and with minimum education of 14 years was collected through purposive sampling technique from different universities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Self-report measures including Day-Dreaming Frequency Subscale of Imaginal Process Inventory (Singer & Antrobus, 1970) Ruminative Response Scale (Treynor, Gonzalez, & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2003), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck, Epstein, Brown, & Steer, 1988) were administered to measure study variables. Results yielded self-generated thoughts as a significant positive predictor of anxiety symptoms, whereas rumination was found to significantly predict anxiety in positive direction. Moreover, rumination mediated the relationship between self-generated thoughts and symptoms of anxiety. Female students scored significantly higher on daydreaming, rumination, and anxiety symptoms as compared to male university students. This study will be helpful for mental health professionals to gain a better understanding that how daydreaming can have an impact on individual’s cognition and thus can raise more awareness about dangers associated with excessive daydreaming.

scholarly journals Defensive Functioning Moderates the Effects of Nondirective Meditation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Grete Hersoug ◽  
Morten Wærsted ◽  
Bjørn Lau
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Defensive Functioning ◽  
The Impact

We have recently found that nondirective meditation facilitates stress reduction. This supplementary study investigated whether defensive functioning would moderate these beneficial effects. We explored the occurrence of defense mechanisms and the impact of defensive functioning on the outcome of companies’ stress management programs regarding worries nervousness, mental distress, sleep problems, and muscle pain. The sample was a population of active, working professionals recruited from Norwegian companies (n = 105). The intervention group obtained significant benefits on all outcome measures, but there were no effects in the control group. We analyzed defensive functioning with the self-report questionnaire, Life Style Index, at four time points. The healthy adults who participated had a low level of defense scores at the outset. There was a significant reduction in the level of defenses in both groups over the study period, 6 months. Defensive functioning significantly moderated the change of the outcome measures from baseline to follow-up in the intervention group, but not in the control group.

scholarly journals Emotional Intelligence as a Mediator between Subjective Sleep Quality and Depression during the Confinement Due to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8837
Author(s):  
María Pilar Salguero-Alcañiz ◽  
Ana Merchán-Clavellino ◽  
Jose Ramón Alameda-Bailén
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Subjective Sleep Quality ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Sleep Quality

In March of 2020, as a consequence of the health crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus, the State of Alarm and home confinement of the entire population was imposed in Spain. It is foreseeable that this exceptional situation will have psychological effects on citizens. In this work, the impact of confinement on perceived sleep quality and depression is evaluated through questionnaires, as well as the mediating role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in this relationship. Our results show, firstly, higher prevalence of depressive symptoms in women and young people associated with poorer perceived sleep quality, and secondly, that Emotional Intelligence intervenes as a mediator in this relationship through three different pathways. Worse perceived quality of sleep causes a greater number of depressive symptoms. In addition, this direct relationship may be enhanced by the mediating role of Emotional Intelligence, which we can express in three different ways: low perceived sleep quality and high emotional attention lead to greater depression; low perceived sleep quality and low emotional clarity increase greater symptoms of depression; and low perceived sleep quality together with low clarity and low emotional repair increase levels of depression. Therefore, we can conclude that improving the skills involved in Emotional Intelligence might increase perceived sleep quality, and thus reduce depressive symptoms, which in turn may improve the quality of life.

scholarly journals Dementia Care-Related Stress and Working Memory Performance: Examining the Mediating Role of Sleep

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 451-451
Author(s):  
Ashley Blasi ◽  
Francesca Falzarano
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Dementia Family caregivers often experience significant stress and burden, which has been associated with a myriad of adverse effects on physical and mental health, as well as cognition. The impact of caregiving on health and well-being may have negative implications on the provision of quality and effective care. Specifically, working memory is a key domain of cognition that ultimately underlies logic and decision making processes. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to examine the associations between dementia care-related stress and working memory, as well as potential mediators of this relationship, in a sample of 50 primary caregivers who completed measures examining stress, including burden and overload, and several domains of cognition. Our results showed that higher levels of caregiving overload were associated with worse working memory performance, measured using the N-back task. Additionally, we found that lower sleep quality fully mediated the relationship between overload and working memory performance, such that the negative effects of overload on working memory performance may operate as a result of sleep impairment. By determining the mediating role of sleep while also providing evidence to support the negative relationship between stress and working memory, our results provide support for the development of interventions that target factors such as burden and sleep quality to help mitigate stress in caregivers.

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