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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Positive Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1503036
This article is part of the Research Topic The Psychology of Hope View all 6 articles

BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT: Testing the Relationships of Hope and Negotiable Fate with Sleep Quality among University Students in Hong Kong

Provisionally accepted
Hok I Chan Hok I Chan 1David B Feldman David B Feldman 1*Tse-Mei Shu Tse-Mei Shu 2
  • 1 Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, United States
  • 2 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR China

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    For university students, who are often under significant stress to perform well, sleep is particularly important, playing roles in learning and academic performance. Research demonstrates a relationship between hope and sleep quality. However, most work concerns Western samples, and the hope construct has been criticized for a Western bias. No research investigates sleep quality's relationship to "negotiable fate," a construct more relevant to Asian cultures. Whereas hope involves the individualistic expectancy that goals are achievable through personal action, negotiable fate involves the more collectivist-informed belief that control can be exercised over goals within limits of fate (family, community, society, other external factors). We investigated the relationship of hope and negotiable fate with sleep quality in 160 university students in Hong Kong, administering measures of hope, negotiable fate, sleep quality, depression, anxiety, stress, and life satisfaction. Lower hope was associated with poorer self-reported sleep quality. In addition, consistent with past research, mental health variables (particularly stress) accounted for significant variance in this relationship.Negotiable fate, however, did not relate to sleep quality. * p < .05, ** p < .01

    Keywords: hope, Negotiable fate, Sleep, stress, university Number of words (manuscript body + references): 3, 987

    Received: 27 Sep 2024; Accepted: 17 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Chan, Feldman and Shu. 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: David B Feldman, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, United States

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