Anxiety and Sleep Quality are Affected in Students from Social Sciences

Abstract

Sleep quality in college students has been related to anxiety and depressive symptomatology. However, the available statistics have been focused on students from Health Sciences thus preventing to know whether the same problematic is observed in students from other Majors. We applied the scales DASS-21, PSQI, and EAT-26 to 80 Mexican undergraduate students enrolled to any of the first three semesters of Majors in Administration, Industrial Engineering, or Medicine. We report that the percentage of students with abnormal scores in anxiety (33.33%) and poor sleeping quality (71.43%) was higher in Administration students. By using a logistic regression model, we show that anxiety scores can be explained by stress level, poor sleep quality, depression scores, and by the Major of study. Our findings show that anxiety management is needed for students to alleviate other emotional affections and improve sleep quality, particularly for those of Social Sciences.

Stress and Sleep Quality among Engineering Students

“…(Ahad, 2019;Amir Hamzah et al, 2019;Musiun et al, 2019;Reddy et al, 2018) and undergraduate engineering students (Bisai & Chaudhary, 2017;Negi et al, 2019;Reta et al, 2020). However, previous studies that were conducted in countries such as Saudi Arabia (53%) (Almojali et al, 2017), India (29.3%) (Gedam et al, 2020), Mexico (31.56%) (González Salinas et al, 2020), China (31.3%) (Zhai et al, 2020), Ethiopia (28.7%) (Reta et al, 2020), reported lower prevalence of stress experienced by the university students. This variation could be due to samples from different backgrounds and different types of courses other than the engineering stream, or it might be due to different underlying causes.…”

“…This study has disclosed that stress was negatively associated with sleep quality among Lebanese university students. González Salinas et al (2020) have a similar finding presenting that stress is negatively related to the sleep quality of the students but was conducted on Mexican students from three different fields of study. Moreover, Najem et al (2020) reported that students who were considered morning people have lower stress and greater sleep quality compared to those who were described as evening people.…”

“…These factors affect the sleep quality of the students and its association. Generally, university students reported having experienced a low level of sleep quality (Ahad, 2019;Ahmed et al, 2020;Al-Khani et al, 2019;Almojali et al, 2017;Alotaibi et al, 2020;Amaral et al, 2018;González Salinas et al, 2020;Li et al, 2020;Musa et al, 2018;Najem et al, 2020;Nasir & Mohamad, 2020;Tien Ngu et al, 2017;Wondie et al, 2021;Zhai et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2018). 76% of the students in the study by Almojali et al (2017) reported experiencing low sleep quality.…”

“…On the other hand, several studies have been conducted to identify the stress level among university students. Overall, moderate to high-stress levels have been reported among university students from various majors (Ahad, 2019;Almojali et al, 2017;Amir Hamzah et al, 2019;Bisai & Chaudhary, 2017;Gedam et al, 2020;González Salinas et al, 2020;Musiun et al, 2019;Negi et al, 2019;Reddy et al, 2018;Reta et al, 2020;Zhai et al, 2020). Apart from that, some previous studies have tried identifying the predictors of stress and its association.…”

“…Past researchers have made efforts to determine the relationship between stress and sleep quality. Most of the previous studies found a significant negative relationship between stress and sleep quality (Ahad, 2019;Almojali et al, 2017;Alotaibi et al, 2020;Doolin et al, 2018;González Salinas et al, 2020;Molnar et al, 2020;Najem et al, 2020;Simione et al, 2020;Stanković et al, 2021;Wondie et al, 2021;Zhang et al, 2020;Zou et al, 2020). For instance, Najem et al (2020) aimed to identify the relationship between stress and sleep quality among university students.…”