What time did you go to bed?
It’s probably affecting your happiness
Richard Hartley-Parkinson for
Metro.co.uk
If you want to be happier then
go to bed earlier.
That’s the conclusion of a
study by Binghamton University which found that people with irregular sleep
times are generally more negative.
The research, published in the
journal of Cognitive Therapy and Research, asked 100 people to carry out tasks
and fill in questionnaires that would look at how much they worried.
Their study found that
happiness is not just affected by how much sleep you get, but what time you get
to bed.
Jacob Nota, lead author of the
study, said: ‘Making sure that sleep is obtained during the right time of day
may be an inexpensive and easily disseminable intervention for individuals who
are bothered by intrusive thoughts.’
In its abstract, the report
found: ‘Individuals who endorsed a preference for later sleep and activity
times also reported more [repetitive negative thinking]. These findings suggest
that RNT may be uniquely related to both sleep duration and timing.
