Ravanshenasi Wa Din, Volume 3, Issue 4, No 12, Year 2011, Pages 73-88

    The Role of Gratitude toward God and Trait Gratitude in Sleep Quality

    Article Type: 
    Research
    Writers:
    Naser Aghababaei / MA in Psychology, University of Tehran. / naseragha@gmail.com
    Majid / MA in Psychology, University of Tehran.
    73-88 2010/09/06 2011/01/20 2011/02/07
    Abstract: 
    This study aims to investigate the role of gratitude in sleep quality indexes. 170 students filled out the Gratitude Questionnaire, Gratitude toward God Questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and Self-statement test of pre-sleep cognitions. Data were analyzed using statistics indexes like correlation, regression, analysis of variance, t test, and Sobel test. Results showed that participants’ score in gratitude toward God questionnaire was higher than their score in gratitude questionnaire. Gratitude positively correlated with greater subjective sleep quality, less sleep latency, less sleep disturbances, less use of sleep medicine, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, and positive pre-sleep thoughts. In addition to aforementioned variables, gratitude toward God positively correlated with sleep efficiency. Gratitude and gratitude toward God predicted subsequent amount of sleep quality indexes and this relationship was mediated by pre-sleep cognitions. These findings proved the positive role of gratitude as an example of positive moral trait, and gratitude toward God as an example of positive feeling toward God, and confirmed the mediator and influential role of positive and negative pre-sleep thoughts in sleep quality.
    Keywords: 
    sleep
    sleep quality
    gratitude
    gratitude toward God.
    چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
    Title :نقش قدردانی نسبت به خدا و خوی قدردانی در کیفیت خواب
    Abstract: 
    هدف این پژوهش، بررسی نقش قدردانی در شاخص های کیفیت خواب بود. 170 دانشجو به پرسشنامه‌ی قدردانی، پرسشنامه‌ی قدردانی نسبت به خدا، شاخص کیفیت خواب پیتزبرگ، و آزمون خود اظهاری افکار پیش از خواب پاسخ دادند. داده ها با شاخص های آماری چون همبستگی، رگرسیون، تحلیل واریانس، آزمون t، و آزمون سوبل تحلیل شدند. نتایج نشان داد نمره های شرکت کنندگان در پرسشنامه‌ی قدردانی نسبت به خدا بالاتر از نمره‌ی آنها در پرسشنامه‌ی قدردانی بود. قدردانی با احساس بهتر کیفیت خواب، تأخیر کمتر در به خواب رفتن، اختلالات کمتر خواب، مصرف کمتر داروی خواب آور، نمره‌ی کل شاخص کیفیت خواب پیتزبرگ، و افکار مثبت پیش از خواب همبستگی مثبت داشت. قدردانی نسبت به خدا علاوه بر متغیرهای یاد شده، با کفایت خواب نیز همبستگی مثبت داشت. قدردانی و قدردانی نسبت به خدا مقادیر قابل توجهی از شاخص های کیفیت خواب را پیش بینی کردند و این رابطه با واسطه‌ی افکار پیش از خواب برقرار شد. این یافته ها نقش قدردانی را به عنوان یکی از صفات مثبت اخلاقی، و قدردانی نسبت به خدا را به عنوان یکی از احساسات مثبت نسبت به خدا، در کیفیت خواب ثابت کرد و نقش افکار مثبت و منفی پیش از خواب را به عنوان متغیر واسطه و مؤثر در کیفیت خواب تأیید کرد.
    Keywords: 
    خواب، كيفيت خواب، قدرداني، قدرداني نسبت به خدا، شكر.
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