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Marital happiness = better sleep
Wendy M. Troxel of the University of Pittsburgh studied 1,938 married women from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, a multi-site study of mid-life women whose average age was 46.
Out of the study participants, 51 percent were Caucasian, 20 percent African-American, 9 percent Hispanic, 9 percent Chinese and 11 percent Japanese. The subjects reported on their marital happiness, sleep quality and frequency of difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or early morning awakenings.
Higher levels of marital happiness were associated with a lesser risk of having multiple sleep complaints, but only among Caucasian women.
However, happily married women had less difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, and reported fewer early morning awakenings and more restful sleep as compared to unhappily married women.
"The present results show that happily married women have fewer sleep problems than unhappily married women," Troxel said in a statement.
The findings were presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Baltimore.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 06/10/2008
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06-16-2008 23:24
Sandy in Wisconsin wrote:
Marital happiness = better sleep
And it took how much money to figure out that
happily married women, no matter what nationality, sleep better than unhappily married women??? Pay any woman what it cost for THIS study, and they'd come up with the same findings! Hello! Common sense says it all! The only other thing other than an unhappy marriage that makes women sleep badly are those freakin' HOT FLASHES!
happily married women, no matter what nationality, sleep better than unhappily married women??? Pay any woman what it cost for THIS study, and they'd come up with the same findings! Hello! Common sense says it all! The only other thing other than an unhappy marriage that makes women sleep badly are those freakin' HOT FLASHES!
06-13-2008 16:50
lasisi w.s wrote:
truely so!!!
good work but more research need to be carried out to find out the physiological processes involved
06-13-2008 16:16
Latonya wrote:
Marital Happiness
I found that the research was unreliable considering that the testing was done on one race and not all. Every culture is different and I feel that if your going do a study on anything, then you shouldn't be so closed minded. One race doesn't spoke for us all.
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