The Relationship of Exercise, Stress, and Video Game Usage on Sleep Quality in College Students
Haylee Beish, Emma Pilis, Alex Sharpe,
& Anne Spady
a Research Methods Project supervised by Dr. Mindy Erchull
(Fall 2020)
Erchull_group6check out these “elevator” talks from each group member
The relationship between stress and sleep is super important, especially with the pandemic! I also wonder about screen time with video games plus classes this semester (all the blue light) impacting sleep!
I love studies about sleep! At first I was confused by your positive correlation between academic stress and sleep quality until I remembered that the PSQI is scored such that a higher score indicates worse sleep quality. That’s a telling correlation!
Interesting topic. I am a little confused about how to interpret the table that is labeled Regression Coefficients. It is not clear what those numbers are. For example the .000 that has *** next to it.
I think this is super important study – I know I sleep a ton better when I exercise and stress totally interferes with my sleep. I am not a video game player but my kids are – I don’t think it interferes with their sleep because they turn off the video games before they sleep but who knows what would happen in college if they were not supervised by a parent. Also, I think excessive video game playing may predict lower exercise which may, in turn, predict less sleep so that could be looked at in future research. I echo both Stebbin’s and Kolar’s confusion. If the PSQI is scored the way Stebbins says than that makes more sense since stress should definitely be related to less sleep. Also, I was confused by the table in the same way Dr. Kolar wss. I wonder if what is in the table are significance levels. Also, was that a regression table or a correlation table? It was set up more like a bivariate table but said regression.
Interesting research. Exercise behavior can be difficult to quantify. I’m curious how you measured exercise and what the mean you report for exercise represents. Was it just aerobic exercise or would going for a stroll count?
Sleep is so important to college students! Do you think that lack of sleep can also create problems like stress and lack of exercise as well as be the result of them?
Sleep is so important! Lots of freshmen have not learned the self-control to get off of video games and go to sleep. Do you think lack of sleep may lead to less exercise and therefore more stress?
I Found their correlation accurate.