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The role of cognitive procesess in sleep disturbance: a comparison of Japanese and English university students

Harvey, A.G.; Gregory, A.M.; Bird, C.M.; (2002) The role of cognitive procesess in sleep disturbance: a comparison of Japanese and English university students. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , 30 (3) 259 -270. 10.1017/S1352465802003028. Green open access

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Abstract

The present study investigated the role of cognitive processes in the maintenance of clinically significant sleep disturbance across two cultures. A questionnaire was administered to 60 Japanese and 60 English university students to assess the presence of sleep disturbance, predominance of pre-sleep cognitive activity, use of thought management strategies to control pre-sleep cognitive activity, and the content of pre-sleep cognitive activity. The results indicated that across both cultures poor sleepers attributed their sleep disturbance to the presence of uncontrollable pre-sleep cognitive activity. Minor differences between the Japanese and English samples included the strategies employed to control pre-sleep cognitive activity. The English participants were more likely to engage in reappraisal whereas the Japanese sample were more likely to engage in punishment and worry. These results are suggestive of the cross-cultural applicability of cognitive models of insomnia.

Type: Article
Title: The role of cognitive procesess in sleep disturbance: a comparison of Japanese and English university students
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465802003028
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1017/S1352465802003028
Language: English
Additional information: © 2002 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
Keywords: Sleep, insomnia, cross-cultural, Japan, England
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3969
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