@article{ref1,
title="Sleep quality mediates the relationship between traumatic events, psychological distress, and suicidality in college undergraduates",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2022",
author="Berg, Sergey S. and Rosenau, Parker S. and Prichard, J. Roxanne",
volume="70",
number="6",
pages="1611-1614",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To determine whether sleep quality mediates the relationship between traumatic life events and psychological wellbeing in college students. <br><br>METHODS: 40,646 undergraduate responses from the Spring 2017 National College Health Assessment II were evaluated for relationships between two predictor variables: satisfactory sleep and traumatic life events, and two outcome variables: psychological distress (a composite of anxiety, exhaustion, feeling overwhelmed, depression, sadness, loneliness, hopelessness, and anger) and suicidality (composite of self-harm behaviors, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts). Linear mediation regression analysis via structural equation modeling was used to test these relationships. <br><br>RESULTS: Each additional traumatic life event students reported experiencing was associated with a 27.6% - 58.9% increase in the odds of reporting indicators of psychological distress or suicidality. Satisfactory sleep significantly mediated this negative relationship (proportional effects between 10.6 and 12.5%). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Healthy sleep mediates the impact of traumatic life events on psychological distress and suicidality.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2020.1826493",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1826493"
}