Self-Compassion’s Impact on Perceived Stress and Perseverative Thinking as it Relates to Sleep Quality Among College Students
Members of the Sleep and Health Research Lab: Arash Assar1 and Dr. Ivan Vargas1, et al., recently published their study examining the mechanisms linking self-compassion to sleep quality among college students.Using data from 340 undergraduates, researchers evaluated whether perceived stress, general worry, and rumination explained this relationship through simple and parallel mediation models.
Results indicated that higher self-compassion was associated with better sleep quality, and that lower perceived stress and lower general worry partially explained this relationship. Rumination did not account for unique variance once stress and worry were included in the parallel model.
These results suggest that perceived stress and general worry are key factors in the association between self-compassion and sleep quality.
(Assar et al., 2026)
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