Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and Sleep Quality: Rumination As a Mediator and Resilience As a Moderator

Overview

Journal Front Psychiatry

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2019 Jun 14

PMID 31191370

Citations 46

Authors

Yukun Li

Simeng Gu

Zhutao Wang

Hongfan Li

Xiayue Xu

Huan Zhu

Shiji Deng

Xianjun Ma

Guangkui Feng

Fushun Wang

Jason H Huang

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between stressful life events and sleep quality and to probe the role of rumination and resilience in the relationship. The Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, Ruminative Responses Scale, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were used among 1,065 college students. Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) 20.0 and the SPSS macro Process, which were specifically developed for assessing complex models including both mediators and moderators, were used to analyze the data. High scores of stressful life events predicted worse sleep quality. Rumination partially mediated the relations between stressful life events and sleep quality. Resilience moderated the direct and indirect paths leading from stressful life events to sleep quality. The results demonstrate that stressful life events can directly affect the sleep quality of college students and indirectly through rumination. Additionally, increasing psychological resilience could decrease both the direct effect and the indirect effect of stressful life events affecting sleep quality. The results of this study may contribute to a better understanding of the effects, as well as the paths and conditions, of stressful life events on sleep quality in college students. Moreover, these findings can provide constructive suggestions for improving college students' sleep quality.

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