Introduction
The purpose of this study was two-fold: 1) it aimed to identify relationships between sleep and other aspects of human functioning/performance; and 2) it sought to understand how sleep-wake patterns impact daytime functioning. The subject of this research was the researcher himself. The researcher kept a 4 week sleep diary with which to record information pertaining to sleep habits and daily life habits in order to test the conclusions of Bower, Bylsma, Morris and Rottenberg (2010) regarding their findings that poor reported sleep quality is predictive of low positive affects in daily life among persons of both healthy and disordered mindsets. Having a healthy mind, the researcher aimed to evaluate the extent to which sleep quality impacted his overall quality of life.
This topic is important because as Monk, Petrie, Hayes and Kupfer (1994) show, regularity in one’s daily life bears some relation to the development of the personality, one’s restfulness, sleep quality, and age. In order to better understand the relationship between sleep and how people operate when they are awake, this study examined one subject as a starting point for identifying how this relationship might appear in an up close and personal way.
This study aims to advance current research on sleep and human performance by focusing specifically on these distinct variables: 1) the number of caffeinated drinks consumed during the day, 2) the mood of the subject that day, 3) the energy level of the subject that day, 4) length of naps taken that day, and 5) whether electronics were used within one hour of sleep. These variables are all common factors in daily life, but it is not well known whether they are impactful on sleep quality. Fossum, Nordnes, Storemark, Bjorvatn and Pallesen (2014) have found that “computer usage for playing/surfing/reading was positively associated with insomnia, and negatively associated with morningness” (p. 343). In the researcher’s own life, he has not found electronic device usage so close to going to bed to be a noticeable factor in sleep quality and morningness—thus this study also aimed to test the findings of Fossum et al. (2014) in order to show how accurate the conclusions reached by these researchers were and whether they apply to all ethnicities. Considering that the subject of this study was an Hispanic male, the findings will add a degree of complexity currently missing from the study on sleep, electronics usage and mood relationship.
The research question for this study was: What is the relationship between mood during the day, electronics usage, hours slept and morningness for the researcher? While the sleep diary recorded other variables...
References
Bower, B., Bylsma, L. M., Morris, B. H., & Rottenberg, J. (2010). Poor reported sleep quality predicts low positive affect in daily life among healthy and mood?disordered persons. Journal of Sleep Research, 19(2), 323-332.
Fossum, I. N., Nordnes, L. T., Storemark, S. S., Bjorvatn, B., & Pallesen, S. (2014). The association between use of electronic media in bed before going to sleep and insomnia symptoms, daytime sleepiness, morningness, and chronotype. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 12(5), 343-357.
Monk, T. H., Petrie, S. R., Hayes, A. J., & Kupfer, D. J. (1994). Regularity of daily life in relation to personality, age, gender, sleep quality and circadian rhythms. Journal of Sleep Research, 3(4), 196-205.
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