Gender-Related Sleep Habits Sample Clauses

Gender-Related Sleep Habits. Many findings in this study are in line with the international figures about predominance of insomnia and poorer sleep habits in females. For example, females complained almost twice as much about insomnia and bad sleep habits. They got the highest scores out of bad sleepers. This may be attributed to concerns that the females have about their families and children, and pressure of society and life events. Also there should be studies about the physiology of sleep in females and the relation, for example with hormones to better understand this relation. I assume that part of this is due to the change in sleep habits in the KSA generally, but in females it is more pronounced. In this study, they had the tendency to go to bed late and also to wake up late, especially homemakers. Another striking fact is that, with new trend of females going to work, female governmental workers tended to have lees sleep hours than their male counterparts. This can be explained by the fact that Saudi people are still traditional in the sense that home duties are part of females' work. This leads female governmental worker to have double duty, i.e., at work and at home. Only widowed males had higher percentage bad sleepers and higher PSQI score than their female counterparts. This aligns with many studies showing that among widowed people in general, male widowers in particular, are more badly affected in their health outcomes than their married counterparts (Martikainen & Valkonen, 1996). This can be attributed to the loss of social support or the failure to cope with stress. On the other hand, among divorced participants, lower percentage of bad sleepers among both males and females, and also less time to fall asleep, may indicate the relieving factor of divorce on the life of people with difficult marital situations.