Healthy Sleep Behavior Analysis

Are you tired and having trouble paying attention in class? Focusing on tasks at hand? Or just completely being overall unproductive? The average college student is deprived at least two full hours asleep each night according to “College Tidbits” a website designed to promote healthy lifestyles and productivity in daily college life. These results were pooled from multiple surveys done over hundreds of campuses throughout the United States. Today, I hope to persuade you to fight the statistics and get those extra two hours of sleep. Do what it takes to get the full seven to nine hours that is suggested by the Mayo Clinic. I will discuss two problems. Why college students are not

As a student advances through school, they tend to have much more on their hands such as a job, social life, family, and homework. The demand of time from students’ hectic lives makes it difficult to fit in adequate sleep. The only way to complete everything on their agenda is to sacrifice some of their nightly sleep, thus becoming chronically sleep deprived. Students who are sleep deprived or receive less than the recommended amount of seven hours of sleep daily, are less likely to succeed academically because it slows down cognitive performance and impairs memory, which affects a student’s ability to learn.

College students like myself often put off sleep for other activities like studying, doing homework or even just staying up all night with a friend. Our body follows the twenty-four hour cycle of each day and night through a biological clock called the Circadian rhythm. On the weekdays, staying up all night and skipping meals makes it difficult to focus in class. After lunchtime, I become sleepy and have difficulty focusing on my other classes. In the afternoon, this affects my body because it does not give me energy, but instead it makes me crash earlier in the day.

Ever since I have begun life at college, I have found going to bed on a decent time each night a very troublesome task. I wake up feeling very tired the next morning, and I always seem in a rush to get my day started. Because of staying up so late and then not waking up on time, I am sometimes late to work or class. In addition, I find myself very tired and stressed throughout the day. This in effect makes me often irritable toward other people. I am tired of living my life in a constant flurry every morning. Thus, the behavioral change that I would like to alter is my sleeping schedule. Being tired after a night of sleep just leads to anxiety and causes even

The fruits of all this inquiry? Ten things, below. In addition to Konnikova’s articles, I’ll also cite Shawn Stevenson’s Sleep Smarter: 21 Proven Tips to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Help, and Bigger Success. (The subtitle is a little self-helpy for my liking, but it’s a cool book.)

Usually, stimulus control consists of learning the theories that explain why difficulty of sleep can be a problem (Williams, Roth, Vatthauer, & McCrae, 2013). With stimulus control, the end goal is to improve the link between three aspects such as bed, bedroom and sleep. Also, it helps reduce activities that might disrupt sleep. In order to accomplish the best stimulus control in my modification plan. I will adopt the following steps:

I have completed the sleep assessment and I am not surprise with the outcome it gave me. The results showed that my sleep habits could be better. Some days are better than others, but generally, I do wake up drowsy and hitting my alarm clock once or twice. I admit, I usually stay up on my phone past midnight like any other young adult. If it is not my phone that is keeping me up at night, it’s usually my mind reminding me of all the stress that may be going on in my life.

Initially I was very excited to do my week 1 self-management, which was challenging for me that I was able to overcome. My main goal was to go to sleep early, since I would always fall sleep past midnight sometime between 2:00 am to 3:00 am in the morning. Then, I would wake up tired the same morning, having to go work feeling with low energy and unpleasant, as if I was messing up my circadian rhythm. Realizing that, I wanted to change the sleep pattern, I had planned that I would to sleep at 11:00 pm this week so I can take control of my Circadian rhythm.

Sleep researchers often attempt to uncover methods permitting humans to sleep less, but still function at an acceptable level. One example of researchers finding ways to cheat sleeping is the study of polyphasic sleep patterns. Research on polyphasic sleep patterns asserts that a person can break up their sleep into portions, thus having extra time to be productive. Articles that encourage polyphasic sleep also ambitiously play with the title’s diction, trying to spike interest, but instead misguides students to develop a delusion and assume sleep is unimportant. Even with scientists denouncing polyphasic sleeping as a myth, students still consider sleeping as a waste of time, and can be more productive by staying up all night doing homework. Although students misconceive that depriving sleep enhances work efficiency, not enough sleep is detrimental to health, because it stimulates loss of physical health and decreases brain function.

I over the past week I slept approximately fifty-nine hours, three more than the recommended weekly amount, assuming eight hours a night. When it comes to sleep, my biggest problem is a lack of a sleep schedule. In a given night I could have slept anywhere from five to ten hours. The only constant aspect of my sleep schedule is my nap schedule, which I did a poor job of keeping to this particular week. Most weeks, I take a half-hour to an hour nap Monday through Friday, either before or after lunch, and often a much longer one Saturday. My weekday naps serve the purpose of reenergizing me for class after a morning of homework. On the other hand, my Saturday nap serves as a substitute for any additional hours of sleep I may have loss throughout the week and to prepare me for the week that is ahead. My general commitment to sleeping around midday has allowed me to stay up until past midnight most every night to socialize or do homework and still wake up for my morning

Unfortunately, I do not believe the behavior change was large enough that it will make a meaningful impact in my professionalism. My sleep schedule is only the side effect of my lack of effective time management. For that reason, I would not recommend this intervention to others.

They range on a scale from 4 hours of an bad night to 7 hours if it's a good night. It doesn't help either that I have really bad insomnia.The music in the background did nothing but take my mind off of homework if it was upbeat or make me drowsy if it was slow with no lyrics. I know that you can't accurately calculate an increase in grades in two weeks, but I feel deep down into my core, that it would not have changed. Taking breaks was probably the most useful to get stress out of the way but that still didn't do much. It was interesting to have a problem and to try different solutions to work it out but if the end result actually would never have worked I think I would have wanted to save myself from constantly having to remind myself of calculating everything I

First, I start by setting a date of achieving this goal. I can also include incremental goals before my final date. I can start out by going to bed 15 minutes earlier than usual, and keep moving this back by 15 minutes in order to go to bed an hour earlier. Just I have previous stated, I can remind myself of the health benefits of getting 8 hours of sleep. Also, I should be aware of the barriers I acquire. These barriers may be, not having the motivation to go to bed earlier, not yet being tired, and being too busy to go to bed at the right time. My strategies for overcoming these barriers are to remind myself of the health benefits, and if I am too busy I should try to better my time management. Changing my amount of sleep during the school year I believe in the long run will help me to do better in class and work by having more energy and feeling less

"(”Having Trouble Sleeping?”)Sleep is a biological necessity and is essential for the restoration of cells in the body. Saundra K. Ciccarelli and J. Noland White, authors of Psychology, fourth edition states, “sleep is one of the human body’s biological rhythms, natural cycles of activity that the body must go through”(138). Naturally as a person ages they become more in control and aware of their sleep schedule. This ability to make the choice of when to go to sleep and for how long is when bad habits start to develop. Trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep is a widespread issue. Often people think they have a medical sleep disorder, but most sleeping problems can be traced back to bad habits throughout the day before bed and while in

Doing the sleeping inventory evaluation, I learned that a lot of the things I do daily that affect my sleep. An example would be, not getting enough exercise. Being physically active during the day will make you more tired at the end of the day which makes it easier to sleep and much faster! Something I do every night before I go to bed, is staying up late on my phone. You shouldn’t be on your phone, watching tv or reading a book in bed, because it can make it harder to calm yourself to fall asleep because you are focusing, I will give myself an hour to unwind before going to sleep.