Katharina Buczek
“Our results highlight the important role that sleep plays in understanding loneliness across the adult lifespan. Perhaps efforts to improve sleep health could have a beneficial effect on loneliness, especially for young people,” Dzierzewski noted.
Right now, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society recommend that adults get seven hours of sleep each night for optimal productivity, health, and daytime alertness.
Now, the researchers did not delve into why younger adults seemed to benefit more significantly from sleep’s impact on reducing loneliness compared to other age groups. But, they agreed that this interesting finding calls for further study.
To read the study’s complete findings, which have since been published in Oxford Academic’s SLEEP, visit the link here.
