New study reveals how adding 46 minutes of sleep can measurably increase ‘positives of life’ People who are grateful, resilient, and fortunate in life exhibit improved health, including improved sleep. reverse causal interpretation of sleep gains and losses: how do they impact expressions and feelings of resilience, gratefulness, and flourishing? indicate that mood disorders and subjective sleepiness worsened with later bedtimes, which decreased nightly sleep by an average of 37 minutes and improved with earlier bedtimes, which increased sleep duration by an average of 46 minutes per night. With sleep extension, measures of thriving, resilience, and gratitude considerably improved over the week; with sleep restriction, measures significantly deteriorated. The health effects of sleep deprivation are widely known. To support optimal health, productivity, and alertness during the day ninety adults were tracked using actigraphy and randomly assigned to sleep usually, late, or early for a single workweek. sleep problems have been widespread. While it’s recognized that sleep loss worsens mental health symptoms, there have not been experimental studies to test whether increasing sleep improves the positive aspects of life like feelings of purpose, hope, and gratitude
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