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Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media

Vol. 45, 19 April 2024


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Lack of Sleep among College Students Can Lead to Negative Emotions and Affect Memory

Wenyi Li * 1
1 North Sichuan Medical Colleges

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media, Vol. 45, 16-22
Published 19 April 2024. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by EWA Publishing
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Citation Wenyi Li. Lack of Sleep among College Students Can Lead to Negative Emotions and Affect Memory. LNEP (2024) Vol. 45: 16-22. DOI: 10.54254/2753-7048/45/20230227.

Abstract

Sleep deprivation is associated with various disorders in most body systems. College students are one of the most significantly affected groups by sleep deprivation. However, the impact of sleep deprivation on emotions and memory has been fully demonstrated. No researchers have studied whether sleep deprivation causes social anxiety and affects college students' ability to remember words. This study aims to explore the effects of sleep deprivation on emotional control and memory abilities in adolescents. Thirty-four participants were investigated online to collect and evaluate sleep quality, Social anxiety, and vocabulary memory. The questionnaire included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Self Review Anxiety Scale (SAS), and vocabulary memory time under different sleep qualities. Correlation and regression analyses of sleep quality, Social anxiety, and memory foreword ability. There was no significant correlation between sleep deprivation, anxiety, and vocabulary memory. Research has shown that sleep deprivation does not cause stress or affect vocabulary memory. To improve the reliability of current research, future work can increase the sample size.

Keywords

sleep deprivation, anxiety, vocabulary memory, college students

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The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Politics and Socio-Humanities
ISBN (Print)
978-1-83558-359-3
ISBN (Online)
978-1-83558-360-9
Published Date
19 April 2024
Series
Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
ISSN (Print)
2753-7048
ISSN (Online)
2753-7056
DOI
10.54254/2753-7048/45/20230227
Copyright
19 April 2024
Open Access
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