PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sleep Deprivation, Snoring, International Sleep Products Association
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Psyc 1010: module 9 the effect of sleep on students. College and university students are especially sleep deprived; 69 percent in one national survey reported feeling tired or having little energy on several or more days in the last two weeks. For students, less sleep predicts conflicts in friendships/romantic relationships. Tired triggers crabby. in another survey, 28 percent of high school students acknowledged falling asleep in class at least once a week. The going needn"t get boring before students start snoring. Sleep loss is also a predictor of depression. Researchers who studied 15,500 12-to 18-year-olds found that those who slept 5 or fewer hours a night had a 71 percent higher risk of depression than their peers who slept 8 hours or more. This link does not appear to reflect an effect of depression on sleep. When children and youth are followed through time, sleep loss predicts. Moreover, rem sleep"s processing of emotional experiences helps protect.
