(卡内基梅隆大学)迪特里希人文与社会科学学院心理学和神经科学教授威廉·S·迪特里希二世和大卫·克雷斯维尔带领一组研究人员评估睡眠与 GPA 之间的关系。
“Animal studies have shown how critical sleep is for learning and memory,” said Creswell. "Here we show how this work translates to humans. The less nightly sleep a first year college student gets at the beginning of the school term predicts lower GPA at the end of the term. Lack of sleep may be hurting students’ ability to learn in their college classrooms.”
克雷斯维尔说:“动物研究表明了睡眠对学习和记忆至关重要。我们的研究论证了睡眠对人类学习和记忆的影响。大一学生在学期初的夜间睡眠越少,预示着学期结束时GPA越低。睡眠不足可能损害了大学生的学习能力。”
The study evaluated more than 600 first-year students across five studies at three universities. The students wore wrist Fitbit devices to monitor and record their sleep patterns. The researchers found that students in the study sleep on average 6.5 hours a night.
该研究对三所大学600多名大一学生进行了5项研究。学生在手腕上佩戴Fitbit设备来监测和记录他们的睡眠模式。研究人员发现,参与研究的学生平均每晚睡眠仅为6.5小时。
More surprisingly, the researchers found that students who receive less than six hours of sleep experienced a pronounced decline in academic performance. In addition, each hour of sleep lost corresponded to a 0.07 decrease in end-of-term GPA.
更令人惊讶的是,研究人员发现,睡眠不足6小时的学生学习成绩明显下滑。此外,睡眠每减少1小时,期末GPA下降0.07。
“Once you start dipping below six hours, you are starting to accumulate massive sleep debt that can impair a student’s health and study habits, compromising the whole system,” said Creswell. “Most surprising to me was that no matter what we did to make the effect go away, it persisted.”
克雷斯维尔说:“一旦你的睡眠时间开始低于 6 小时,就会开始积累大量的睡眠债,这会损害学生的健康和学习习惯,从而危及全局。最令我惊讶的是,无论我们采取什么措施来消除这种影响,它都会持续存在。”
克雷斯维尔说:“很多大学生认为,晚上多学习或多聚会很重要。但我们的研究表明,减少夜间睡眠的代价可能是影响你的学习能力和学业表现。在安排时间时有必要考虑夜间睡眠的重要性。”