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Your parents may be right: sleep and you will feel better in the morning, according to new research.
“Our study suggests that the mental health and the well-being of people could fluctuate over time of day,” said Dr. Feifei Bu, author of the main study, principal researcher in statistics and epidemiology at the University College of London, in an email. “On average, people seem to feel better at the start of the day and worse late at night.”
To find out how mental health and well-being reflected and sunk, the researchers analyzed the data from the University of the London College of 49,218 people who were interviewed more than a dozen times between March 2020 and March 2022, according to the study published in the journal BMJ Mental Health.
Data has shown a trend to people generally reporting better mental health and well-being earlier in the day, with less serious depressive symptoms and increased happiness, life satisfaction and self-feeling, said BU.
It is important to note that, even if a correlation has been found, the researchers cannot say with certainty that the time of the day has led people to have better mental health and well-being, added BU.
“The day of the day could affect the mental health and the well-being of people, but the mental state of people could also affect when they choose to respond to the investigation,” she said. “Although our results are intriguing, they must be reproduced in other studies that fully approach this possibility.”
And mental health and well-being may have to be examined separately, said Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center and professor emeritus of media psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.
“Mental health and well-being are two constructions that overlap but distinct. Mental health is a crucial part of well-being, but well-being is more than mental health, “she said.
Well-being is a positive state determined by the social, economic and environmental conditions which include the quality of life and a sense and a goal, according to the World Health Organization.
It is logical that mental health and well-being are at the center of this study, because previous studies are mainly turning on associations with mood, said Rutledge.
“Mood is a temporary emotional state, while mental health and well-being are broader and more stable conditions that include emotional, psychological and cognitive assessments,” she added.
Knowing how much mental health and well-being can give a new overview of how resources must be made available.
“Mental health support services can consider adjusting resources to correspond to fluctuating needs throughout the day – for example, priority to availability at the end of the evening,” said Bu in an email .
This last study confirms what previous research has already found: “The request for interventions and care, especially among young people, gets up in the evening and seasonallyinfluenced by Temperature, duration of dayAnd Cultural, regional and individual differencesAdded Rutledge.
Does research show that it is better to bed and manage emotionally difficult things in the morning, then?
Research is contradictory, but most evidence indicates the end of morning as the best time for this type of problem solving, said Rutledge.
“Research suggests that the mood is relatively stable at the end of the morning, which facilitates the management of difficult subjects with a head of the head and an emotional distance,” she added.
Mid-Afternon is when levels of cortisol, stress hormonecan be lower, But this decrease is countered by research that shows that mood diving and Decision of fatigue Settled around this time of the day, said Rutledge.
“The start of the evening can be the best for personal emotional treatment, such as journalization and reflection, once the emotional balance has been found. It can also be a good time for empathetic listening rather than having these difficult conversations, ”she said.
Although there are physiological changes throughout the day which can influence the way you manage things, there are more important correlations between mental health and well-being and the period of the year, according to Rutledge. In addition, stress, autonomy, social support and environmental conditions also have an impact on mood, she added.
And if you are not one morning, this research does not mean that you have to reorganize your life, said BU.
“Your personal experience may vary,” she said. “If you are a night bird that feels (inside) Form greater than midnight, do not panic. “”