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Binge-watching TV may lead to poor sleep
Binge-watching television can cause poorer sleep quality, more fatigue, and increased insomnia in young adults, a study has found.
London: Binge-watching television can cause poorer sleep quality, more fatigue, and increased insomnia in young adults, a study has found.
The findings suggest that the mechanism explaining this relationship is increased cognitive alertness resulting from binge-watching.
Researchers found that more than 80 per cent of young adults identified themselves as a binge-watcher, with 20.2 per cent of them binge-watching at least a few times a week in the previous month.
Those who identified as a binge-watcher reported more fatigue, more symptoms of insomnia, poorer sleep quality and greater alertness prior to going to sleep.
Further analysis found that binge-watchers had a 98 per cent higher likelihood of having poor sleep quality compared with those who did not consider themselves to be a binge- watcher.
"We found that the more often young people binge-watch, the higher their cognitive pre-sleep arousal," said Liese Exelmans, doctoral candidate at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
"That in turn negatively affected sleep quality, fatigue and insomnia," said Exelmans. The study involved 423 young adults who were 18 to 25 years old, with an average age of 22 years.
Sixty-two per cent of participants were women, and 74 per cent were students. They completed an online survey assessing regular television viewing, binge-watching, sleep quality, fatigue, insomnia, and pre-sleep alertness.
