Gibbons Jeffrey A, McManus Brenna E, White Ella C, Gibbons Akihaya M
Department of Psychology, Christopher Newport University, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA.
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 May 6;15(5):634. doi: 10.3390/bs15050634.
The current study examined the combined effects of sleep deprivation and anxiety on participants' willingness to act courageously in both heroic and everyday situations. The participants consisted of 256 undergraduate students between the ages of 18 to 25 years old seeking regular and extra credit for their psychology classes through SONA. Following informed consent, the participants completed demographic questionnaires through Qualtrics, as well as the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and an adapted version of the Woodard Pury Courage Scale-23 (WPCS-23). The adapted Woodard Pury Courage Scale-23 measures participants' willingness to engage in challenging tasks that require either heroic or everyday courage and the fear they would experience when engaging in these tasks. The six measures of courage included willingness to engage in everyday, heroic, and both acts, as well as fear when engaging in these actions. Fear/anxiety by sleep interactions predicted every courage measure except for fear when engaging in daily courageous actions. The results supported the hypothesis that fear/anxiety and poor sleep would combine to predict courage, and their implications are discussed.
当前的研究考察了睡眠剥夺和焦虑对参与者在英勇情境和日常情境中勇敢行动意愿的综合影响。参与者包括256名年龄在18至25岁之间的本科生，他们通过SONA为自己的心理学课程寻求常规学分和额外学分。在获得知情同意后，参与者通过Qualtrics完成了人口统计学问卷，以及抑郁焦虑压力量表、匹兹堡睡眠质量指数和伍德沃德-普里勇气量表23（WPCS-23）的改编版。改编后的伍德沃德-普里勇气量表23测量了参与者参与需要英勇或日常勇气的具有挑战性任务的意愿，以及他们在参与这些任务时会经历的恐惧。勇气的六项测量指标包括参与日常、英勇和两者行为的意愿，以及参与这些行为时的恐惧。睡眠与恐惧/焦虑的相互作用预测了除参与日常勇敢行为时的恐惧之外的每一项勇气测量指标。结果支持了这样的假设，即恐惧/焦虑和睡眠不足会共同预测勇气，并对其影响进行了讨论。
