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The Relation of College Students’ Sleep Behavior to ADHD Symptom Reporting, Cognitive Performance, and Neurophysiological Parameters

Ng, H. Mei
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339724290

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Clinical Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
Sleep loss and ADHD have overlapping attention-related symptoms and similar cognitive consequences. Given the robust findings within the experimental sleep literature, current critiques of sleep research have called for naturalistic examination of sleep loss. The present study aimed to add to the sleep literature by examining undergraduate students’ self-reported sleep data (i.e., average sleep duration over one week) in relation to three broad issues related to attention: 1) complaints of ADHD symptoms, 2) focused and sustained attention, and 3) an objective assessment of wakefulness (i.e., EEG measures) during an ecologically valid sustained attention task (i.e., attending to a mock lecture). Consistent with prior sleep findings, students who slept less on average over one week self-reported more attention-related difficulties. In contrast, students who slept less took less time to react and demonstrated better accuracy performance on a measure of focused attention (sleep was not related to other cognitive measures or to spectral power on the EEG). Exploratory and supplemental analyses demonstrated that self-reported sleep quality was highly related to self-reported attentional difficulties, positively related to lapsing performance on the focused attention task, and negatively related to EEG spectral power. Meanwhile, more variability in sleep duration over the week was related to more lapsing on a focused attention task, as well as slower reaction times on both focused and sustained attention tasks. Although higher negative mood was related to slower reaction time on the sustained attention task, and state alertness was found to be related to lower EEG spectral power during the mock lecture task, these findings are likely unstable due to the limited findings when compared to the number of comparisons explored. Implications of these findings, as well as limitations and future directions, are discussed.
Julie Suhr, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
126 p.
Mental Health; Psychology
sleep; attention; ADHD; cognitive performance; EEG

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  • Ng, H. M. (2012). The Relation of College Students’ Sleep Behavior to ADHD Symptom Reporting, Cognitive Performance, and Neurophysiological Parameters [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339724290

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ng, H. Mei. The Relation of College Students’ Sleep Behavior to ADHD Symptom Reporting, Cognitive Performance, and Neurophysiological Parameters. 2012. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339724290.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ng, H. Mei. "The Relation of College Students’ Sleep Behavior to ADHD Symptom Reporting, Cognitive Performance, and Neurophysiological Parameters." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1339724290

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