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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1547389
This article is part of the Research Topic The Intersection of Psychology, Healthy Behaviors, and its Outcomes View all 79 articles
The Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Bedtime Procrastination among Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model
Provisionally accepted- 1 Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China
- 2 School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Gui'an, China
This study aimed to explore the psychological mechanism by which perceived stress affects bedtime procrastination in Chinese college students in a life history framework. First, we investigated whether life history strategy mediate their relationships. Then, we examined whether distress tolerance moderated the direct effects of perceived stress on bedtime procrastination and/or the indirect effects of them mediated by life history strategy. The data of 1021 college students were analyzed. The results showed that: (1) perceived stress had a significant predictive effect on bedtime procrastination; (2) life history strategy played a mediating role in the relationship between perceived stress and bedtime procrastination; (3) distress tolerance moderated the indirect effect between them mediated by life history strategy, but not the direct effect between them. The present study suggested that life history-based interventions might be an effective intervention for stress-induced bedtime procrastination. Specifically, it might be helpful for alleviation of bedtime procrastination to develop slow life history strategy, when faced with similar stressful situations in the future.
Keywords: perceived stress, Bedtime procrastination, life history strategy, distress tolerance, Chinese college students
Received: 18 Dec 2024; Accepted: 18 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 He, Wu, Meng and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Chunlu Li, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Gui'an, China
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