{"id":8880,"date":"2023-12-26T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T03:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2023-12-26T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T03:46:08","slug":"sleep-deprivation-makes-us-less-happy-more-anxious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/sleep-deprivation-makes-us-less-happy-more-anxious\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep deprivation makes us less happy, more anxious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sleep loss does more than just make us tired. It can undermine our emotional functioning, decrease positive moods and put us at higher risk for anxiety symptoms, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association that synthesized more than 50 years of research on sleep deprivation and mood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn our largely sleep-deprived society, quantifying the effects of sleep loss on emotion is critical for promoting psychological health,\u201d said study lead author Cara Palmer, PhD, of Montana State University. \u201cThis study represents the most comprehensive synthesis of experimental sleep and emotion research to date, and provides strong evidence that periods of extended wakefulness, shortened sleep duration, and nighttime awakenings adversely influence human emotional functioning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palmer and her colleagues, including co-lead author Joanne Bower, PhD, of East Anglia University, analyzed data from 154 studies spanning five decades, with 5,715 total participants. In all those studies, researchers disrupted participants\u2019 sleep for one or more nights. In some experiments, participants were kept awake for an extended period. In others, they were allowed a shorter-than-typical amount of sleep, and in others they were periodically awakened throughout the night. Each study also measured at least one emotion-related variable after the sleep manipulation, such as participants\u2019 self-reported mood, their response to emotional stimuli, and measures of depression and anxiety symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the researchers found that all three types of sleep loss resulted in fewer positive emotions such as joy, happiness and contentment among participants, as well as increased anxiety symptoms such as a rapid heart rate and increased worrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis occurred even after short periods of sleep loss, like staying up an hour or two later than usual or after losing just a few of hours of sleep,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cWe also found that sleep loss increased anxiety symptoms and blunted arousal in response to emotional stimuli.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Findings for symptoms of depression were smaller and less consistent, as were those for negative emotions such as sadness, worry and stress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cResearch has found that more than 30 percent of adults and up to 90 percent of teens don\u2019t get enough sleep,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cThe implications of this research for individual and public health are considerable in a largely sleep-deprived society. Industries and sectors prone to sleep loss, such as first responders, pilots and truck drivers, should develop and adopt policies that prioritize sleep to mitigate against the risks to daytime function and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Sleep Loss and Emotion: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Over Fifty Years of Experimental Research<\/a>\u201d by Cara Alexis Palmer, PhD, Montana State University; Joanne L. Bower, PhD, University of East Anglia; Kit W. Cho, PhD, University of Houston Downtown; Michelle A. Clementi, PhD, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus; Simon Lau, PhD, and Candice A. Alfano, PhD, University of Houston; and Benjamin Oosterhoff, PhD, Meadows Mental Health Institute appeared in the\u00a0Psychological Bulletin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sleep loss does more than just make us tired. It can undermine our emotional functioning, decrease positive moods and put us at higher risk for anxiety symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1906,2206,2211],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-lack-of-sleep","tag-sleep-deprivation","tag-sleeping-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}