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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1402322

Allowing Time for 8+ Hours of Sleep: Identification and Validation of Important Beliefs Using the Reasoned Action Approach

Provisionally accepted
Michael J. Tagler Michael J. Tagler *
  • Ball State University, Muncie, United States

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    The present studies advance research using the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) to understand sleep behavior. Belief elicitation and follow-up validation studies were conducted to identify readily accessible and important beliefs regarding allowing time for 8+ hours of sleep each night. Identification of beliefs is necessary to understand the attitudes, perceived normative pressure, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) that individuals hold told the behavior. Important attituderelevant beliefs included positive effects on mood, thinking, health, and productivity. Important normative beliefs were perceived injunctive pressure from family, health professionals, and significant others. Because of the strong influence of PBC on intentions/behavior, most important were control beliefs about the need for good time management. Identification of these key beliefs is a necessary step toward the design of effective interventions to improve sleep duration.

    Keywords: sleep duration, Elicitation study, reasoned action approach (RAA), theory of planned behanvior, Sleep beliefs

    Received: 17 Mar 2024; Accepted: 18 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tagler. 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: Michael J. Tagler, Ball State University, Muncie, United States

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