THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SLEEP AND MEASURES OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEINGIN COLLEGE-STUDENTS - A REPEATED-MEASURES APPROACH

The stability of subjective measures of sleep, health, and,cell-being, as well as the stability of the relationships between sleep and healt h and well-being were assessed over 3 months. Healthy college students with no consistent sleep complaints completed a 7-day sleep log and b attery of surveys related to health and well-being at 3 separate times during the 3 months. Measures of health and well-being were more stro ngly related to the quality than to the quantity of sleep. Further ana lyses using the repeated measures, results found that participants rep orted improved sleep mid better health, but the affect balance, life s atisfaction, and mood states were unchanged across the 3 testing perio ds. The relationships between the measures of sleep and measures of he alth and well-being remained constant across the experimental period. Even when working with a non-sleep-disturbed population, healthcare pr ofessionals should consider sleep quality as a consistent correlate of daily health and well-being.