Abstract
With the growing research that sleep habits interact with stress and health, it is now essential to understand exactly how sleep influences stress, which contributes to a person’s overall health and wellness.
Highlights
Recent studies have indicated that Cortisol, a main hormone of stress, plays a critical role in the development of habitual behavior
There is support that chronic sleep deprivation causes memory to be impaired, along with increases in oxidative stress [4]. Even though all these problems have been found with a lack-of-sleep, it is suggested that sleep problems might contribute towards these adverse health effects by negatively influencing the stress system
In the United States, there are national programs aimed at promoting stress-reducing habits in working adults (e.g., National Healthy Worksite Program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018), as well as promoting good sleeping-habits (e.g., National Sleep Foundation, 2018)
Summary
Recent studies have indicated that Cortisol, a main hormone of stress, plays a critical role in the development of habitual behavior. More recent findings began measuring in terms of sleep-quality because it better controlled varying sleep groups. It is more important how little disruption and deep sleep an individual receives (sleep-quality) than purely how many hours one sleep (sleep- quantity) [23,24,25]. Overall sleep quantity and the amount of time spent in the non- rapid eye movement (REM) stage diminish as an individual gets older [30]. This holds some concerns for age as a moderator for sleep quality
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