TY - JOUR
AR - PDR-2019-1-101
TI - The Relationship of Electronic Equipment Use Before Bedtime and Sleep Problems: Evidence from Young Adults of Southern China
AU -  Qun , Zhang
AU -  Zifeng , Mai
AU - Hua , Liang
AU - Ning , Ma
AU - Quansen , Yang
JO - Psychological Disorders and Research
PY - 2019
DA - Tue 13, Mar 2018
SN - 2674-2470
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.PDR.2019.01.001
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/the-relationship-of-electronic-equipment-use-before-bedtime-and-sleep-problems-evidence-from-young-adults-of-southern-china_SR-PDR-2019-1-101 
KW - Light-emitting electronic equipment, sleep quality, daily performance
AB - It was demonstrated that there are lots of impact of the usage of electronic equipment before bedtime to
individual health. However previous studies focused on the acute short-term effects rather than long-term
accumulating effect. To investigate this issue, 2330 participants were invited to answer the questionnaire
about their usage of electronic equipment before bedtime and their sleep quality. Results indicated that: (1)
Higher level of using electronic equipment before bedtime, longer sleep onset latency and shorter valid sleep
time among individuals; (2) Higher level of using electronic equipment before bedtime, higher sleepiness
level and lower self-satisfactions of academic, health, and sleep among individuals; (3) and as mediator,
sleep efficiency plays an important role between usage of electronic equipment and daily sleepiness, as well
between usage of electronic equipment and self-satisfactions. These results are useful to reveal the longterm accumulating effect of the usage of electronic equipment before bedtime and enrich the understanding
of the effect to young adults’ sleep and daily performance.