ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Emotional Repair Partially Mediates the Relationship between Sleep Quality and Loneliness in College Students

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Clinical Science

  • Katherine Ostrow
    Middlebury College
  • Martin Seehuus
    Middlebury College
  • Olivia Rieur
    Middlebury College
  • Madelyn Lander
    Middlebury College
  • Darya Khodakhah
    Middlebury College
  • Robert Moeller
    Middlebury College

Abstract

Among a sample of college students, those with better sleep habits tend to experience significantly less loneliness. Emotional repair partially mediates this relationship, suggesting that one’s ability to regulate emotions and return to an emotional baseline contributes to lower levels of loneliness when sleep quality is high.

Emotion