The Relationships between Sleep Quality and Leisure Activities amongWorking People
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Wang, Chih-Wei
Abstract
Leisure activities are considered a very important part of daily life. Much research has provided evidence that leisure activities can reduce stress, promote interpersonal relationships and achieve self-realization. Many questions regarding leisure activities still remain to be discussed and studied. This study will address whether leisure activities located on a scale with different dimensions will show a correlation between leisure activity time and sleep quality. A correlation between sleep quality and perceived stress is also assumed. The research samples for this study are working people. To discuss the characteristics of leisure activities, we selected three dimensions that relate to theories for coping with or reducing stress. These three dimensions are activity strength (leisure sports, non-sports leisure), environment in which the leisure activity takes place (green spaces or non-green spaces), and the relationship dynamic (with others or alone). The participants were asked to record how many hours they spent during the previous week on major leisure activities and to put these hours in the different
categories of the three dimensions. Then perceived stress was measured by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), personal sleep quality was measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and correlation analysis was used to show the correlations between leisure activity hours, sleep quality and perceived stress.
This study used Convenience Sampling to analyze the remaining 175 subjects.These results show that leisure hours in the dimensions of activity strength and environmental space have a significant correlation with the PSQI’s factors. The more hours spent engaged in leisure activities in green spaces, the better the sleep quality
and the lower the level of daytime dysfunction. As the number of hours spent playing active sports increases, subjective sleep quality is improved and the level of daytime dysfunction decreases. Furthermore, perceived stress has a significant correlation with sleep quality; the higher the perceived stress is, the lower the sleep quality is. The major activities that fall into both the non-sport leisure time activities category and the non-green space leisure activities category are “Watching television” and “playing on the computer”. People who spend more hours on non-sport leisure activities and
non-green space activities have a higher frequency of taking sleeping pills.
Subjects
Leisure partner relation
activity strength
leisure benefits
perceived stress
green space
Type
thesis
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