Association between sleep quality and executive functions among middle school students
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2025182
- VernacularTitle:中学生睡眠质量与执行功能的关联
- Author:
YU Xiumin, CHEN Fule, YAN Jingfei, YIN Xiaojian, WU Huipan, WANG Yi, GUO Yaru, XU Dingkun
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Author Information
1. School of Economics Management, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai (201418) , China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Sleep;
Executive function;
Regression analysis;
Students
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2025;46(6):774-778
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the relationship between sleep quality and executive function among middle school students, so as to provide theoretical support for the promotion of adolescents physical and mental health development.
Methods:From September to December 2023, 5 713 junior and senior high school students aged 13 to 18 were selected by stratified cluster random sampling method from Shanghai, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Wuyuan, Xingyi, and Urumqi. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to conduct sleep quality survey. And conduct executive function was tested on middle school students, including inhibitory function, refresh function and conversion function tests. Spearman correlation and linear regression were used to analyze the relationship between sleep quality and executive function of middle school students.
Results:The total Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score of boys was [4.0(2.0,6.0)] and that of girls was [5.0(3.0,6.0)], and the difference was statistically significant ( Z=-10.90, P < 0.01 ). The total PSQI score of boys was positively correlated with both 2-back reaction time and conversion function of executive function ( r =0.04, 0.04); the total PSQI score of girls was negatively correlated with 2-back reaction time ( r =-0.04) ( P <0.05). After controlling for variables such as mental health, physical activity and nutritional status,linear regression analyses showed that PSQI total score of middle school students was positively correlated with the inhibitory function and the conversion function response time [ B (95% CI )=1.28(0.21-2.34), 7.62(2.34-12.90), P <0.05]; the associations of total PSQI scores among middle school students with both 2-back and 1-back response time were not statistically significant [ B (95% CI )=-5.88(-16.14-4.37), 8.05( -3.39 -19.50), P >0.05].
Conclusion:Positive correlations are observed on sleep quality with inhibitory and conversion functions of executive function among middle school students.
