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Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college

Academic achievement in the first year of college is critical for setting students on a pathway toward long-term academic and life success, yet little is known about the factors that shape early college academic achievement. Given the important role sleep plays in learning and memory, here we extend...

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Autores principales: Creswell, J. David, Tumminia, Michael J., Price, Stephen, Sefidgar, Yasaman, Cohen, Sheldon, Ren, Yiyi, Brown, Jennifer, Dey, Anind K., Dutcher, Janine M., Villalba, Daniella, Mankoff, Jennifer, Xu, Xuhai, Creswell, Kasey, Doryab, Afsaneh, Mattingly, Stephen, Striegel, Aaron, Hachen, David, Martinez, Gonzalo, Lovett, Marsha C.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36780521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209123120
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author Creswell, J. David
Tumminia, Michael J.
Price, Stephen
Sefidgar, Yasaman
Cohen, Sheldon
Ren, Yiyi
Brown, Jennifer
Dey, Anind K.
Dutcher, Janine M.
Villalba, Daniella
Mankoff, Jennifer
Xu, Xuhai
Creswell, Kasey
Doryab, Afsaneh
Mattingly, Stephen
Striegel, Aaron
Hachen, David
Martinez, Gonzalo
Lovett, Marsha C.
author_facet Creswell, J. David
Tumminia, Michael J.
Price, Stephen
Sefidgar, Yasaman
Cohen, Sheldon
Ren, Yiyi
Brown, Jennifer
Dey, Anind K.
Dutcher, Janine M.
Villalba, Daniella
Mankoff, Jennifer
Xu, Xuhai
Creswell, Kasey
Doryab, Afsaneh
Mattingly, Stephen
Striegel, Aaron
Hachen, David
Martinez, Gonzalo
Lovett, Marsha C.
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description Academic achievement in the first year of college is critical for setting students on a pathway toward long-term academic and life success, yet little is known about the factors that shape early college academic achievement. Given the important role sleep plays in learning and memory, here we extend this work to evaluate whether nightly sleep duration predicts change in end-of-semester grade point average (GPA). First-year college students from three independent universities provided sleep actigraphy for a month early in their winter/spring academic term across five studies. Findings showed that greater early-term total nightly sleep duration predicted higher end-of-term GPA, an effect that persisted even after controlling for previous-term GPA and daytime sleep. Specifically, every additional hour of average nightly sleep duration early in the semester was associated with an 0.07 increase in end-of-term GPA. Sensitivity analyses using sleep thresholds also indicated that sleeping less than 6 h each night was a period where sleep shifted from helpful to harmful for end-of-term GPA, relative to previous-term GPA. Notably, predictive relationships with GPA were specific to total nightly sleep duration, and not other markers of sleep, such as the midpoint of a student’s nightly sleep window or bedtime timing variability. These findings across five studies establish nightly sleep duration as an important factor in academic success and highlight the potential value of testing early academic term total sleep time interventions during the formative first year of college.
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spelling pubmed-99744582023-08-13 Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college Creswell, J. David Tumminia, Michael J. Price, Stephen Sefidgar, Yasaman Cohen, Sheldon Ren, Yiyi Brown, Jennifer Dey, Anind K. Dutcher, Janine M. Villalba, Daniella Mankoff, Jennifer Xu, Xuhai Creswell, Kasey Doryab, Afsaneh Mattingly, Stephen Striegel, Aaron Hachen, David Martinez, Gonzalo Lovett, Marsha C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences Academic achievement in the first year of college is critical for setting students on a pathway toward long-term academic and life success, yet little is known about the factors that shape early college academic achievement. Given the important role sleep plays in learning and memory, here we extend this work to evaluate whether nightly sleep duration predicts change in end-of-semester grade point average (GPA). First-year college students from three independent universities provided sleep actigraphy for a month early in their winter/spring academic term across five studies. Findings showed that greater early-term total nightly sleep duration predicted higher end-of-term GPA, an effect that persisted even after controlling for previous-term GPA and daytime sleep. Specifically, every additional hour of average nightly sleep duration early in the semester was associated with an 0.07 increase in end-of-term GPA. Sensitivity analyses using sleep thresholds also indicated that sleeping less than 6 h each night was a period where sleep shifted from helpful to harmful for end-of-term GPA, relative to previous-term GPA. Notably, predictive relationships with GPA were specific to total nightly sleep duration, and not other markers of sleep, such as the midpoint of a student’s nightly sleep window or bedtime timing variability. These findings across five studies establish nightly sleep duration as an important factor in academic success and highlight the potential value of testing early academic term total sleep time interventions during the formative first year of college. National Academy of Sciences 2023-02-13 2023-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9974458/ /pubmed/36780521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209123120 Text en Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Creswell, J. David
Tumminia, Michael J.
Price, Stephen
Sefidgar, Yasaman
Cohen, Sheldon
Ren, Yiyi
Brown, Jennifer
Dey, Anind K.
Dutcher, Janine M.
Villalba, Daniella
Mankoff, Jennifer
Xu, Xuhai
Creswell, Kasey
Doryab, Afsaneh
Mattingly, Stephen
Striegel, Aaron
Hachen, David
Martinez, Gonzalo
Lovett, Marsha C.
Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
title Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
title_full Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
title_fullStr Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
title_full_unstemmed Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
title_short Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
title_sort nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college
topic Social Sciences
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36780521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209123120
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