Ostrow Katherine Domar, Rieur Olivia, Moeller Robert W, Seehuus Martin
Department of Psychology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United States.
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Front Sleep. 2025;4. doi: 10.3389/frsle.2025.1516094. Epub 2025 Mar 6.
Loneliness and insomnia are endemic in college students, and emotion regulation is strongly related to both. Starting with a biopsychosocial framework, the present study tested a model in which emotional repair mediated the relationship between loneliness and insomnia, with the goal of using a potential mechanism of action to address loneliness. Participants were undergraduate students (N=1,513) in the United States who completed a survey including the Trait Meta-Mood Scale, Sleep Condition Indicator, and UCLA Loneliness Scale, amongst other measures. Insomnia had a significant total negative effect on loneliness, B = -0.46, 95% CI [-0.54, -0.39]. Emotional repair partially mediated this relationship, with an indirect effect of B = 0.015, 95% CI [-0.19, -0.12]. Participants with better sleep were more able to regulate their emotions, and thus tended to experience lower levels of loneliness. Treating insomnia (e.g., CBT-I) or skills associated with emotional repair and regulation (e.g., transdiagnostic approaches to emotion regulation) could reduce overall loneliness.
孤独和失眠在大学生中很普遍，并且情绪调节与两者都密切相关。本研究从生物心理社会框架出发，测试了一个模型，其中情绪修复在孤独与失眠之间的关系中起中介作用，目的是利用一种潜在的作用机制来解决孤独问题。参与者是美国的本科生（N = 1513），他们完成了一项调查，其中包括特质元情绪量表、睡眠状况指标和加州大学洛杉矶分校孤独量表等其他测量工具。失眠对孤独有显著的总体负面影响，B = -0.46，95%置信区间[-0.54, -0.39]。情绪修复部分中介了这种关系，间接效应为B = 0.015，95%置信区间[-0.19, -0.12]。睡眠较好的参与者更有能力调节自己的情绪，因此往往体验到较低程度的孤独感。治疗失眠（如失眠的认知行为疗法）或与情绪修复和调节相关的技能（如情绪调节的跨诊断方法）可以减少总体孤独感。
