The Relationship Between College Students' Sleep Quality And Rumination: The Mediating Role Of Forgiveness

Sleeping is an everyday activity in our life.According to the previous researches,more than 27% college students have an inferior sleep quality,and nearly one half of them have expressed their problems about sleep quality.Rumination is an important factor that influences college students' sleep quality.Many people,who had experienced negative events,may be stuck in this kind of emotion and unable to get rid of it.They have recalled this event repeatedly,and each time they experienced the negative emotion once more.This process is called rumination.As a positive quality,forgiveness can alleviate and eliminate negative emotions and raise the health level of body and mind.The research tries to find out the related relations between rumination,sleep quality and forgiveness of college students,seek out the function of forgiveness in rumination and sleep quality,providing a new thought for improving the college students' sleep quality.The research mainly uses questionnaire method and the results are based on data from graduate and undergraduate students in J University in J province.Rumination Response Inventory(Chinese revision)and PIT Sleep Quality Index Questionnaire have been used.The total amount of questionnaire is 350,of which 328 was taken back.The recovery rate is 97.3%.Some conclusions have been gained after analyzing those data.A.The general level of rumination of college students is high and it is influenced significantly by gender.Females have a higher level of rumination than males.The grade,the birthplace(whether you are from urban or rural places)and the children amount of a family(whether you are the only child or not)have no obvious influence on the rumination.B.More than 1/3 college students have inferior sleep,and the sleep quality is not influenced by gender significantly.However,seeing dimensionally,comparing withmales,females have more serious problems about the sleep quality,sleep latency and sleep disorders,which means the sleep quality of female is inferior than male.Besides,according to the research,the sleep effectiveness of freshmen and first-year graduates is even worse.The birthplace and family composition(whether he/she is the only child in the family)have little influence on the sleep quality.C.College students have a higher level of forgiveness.The general forgiveness grade of male is higher than female,though not very obvious.The birthplace,grade and family composition have little influence on forgiveness.D.There are noteworthy pairwise correlations between the forgiveness,rumination and sleep quality of college students.Therefore the forgiveness tendency has a positive correlation with sleep quality,while rumination and forgiveness tendency have a negative correlation with sleep quality.E.The forgiveness tendency of college students can play a part role of intermediary agent between rumination and sleep quality.the research mentioned above shows the pairwise correlation between forgiveness,rumination and the sleep quality.It also reflects the mediate function of forgiveness between rumination and the sleep quality of college students.The paper is the empirical study of the function of forgiveness,which verifies the mediate function that rumination plays on college students' sleep quality.This research provides some ideas for psychological counseling aiming to solve the sleep problems of college students.Through infusing the idea of forgiveness into college students,these counseling could increase the forgiveness level of the students' experiences to reduce the rumination level,and further achieve the purpose of improving sleep quality.