Lower Levels Of Self-regulation Research Articles

Do peers matter? The influence of peers' self-regulation on individual self-regulation: a longitudinal multilevel analysis

Introduction:Self-regulation is important for social as well as academic success, and research shows that it is also shaped by social interactions. At the same time, peers shape children's development in many domains. Linking these two concepts, it can be predicted that children who are surrounded by peers with a high level of self-regulation later show higher self-regulation themselves compared to those who are surrounded by peers with a low level of self-regulation.MethodsTo test this assumption, a longitudinal sample with N = 1,658 participants in 181 classrooms (μage = 8.37) was analyzed. The self-regulation facets of working memory updating, inhibition, and flexibility were measured using an age-appropriate version of the Stroop test, the repeat-digits-backward test, and the Wisconsin card-sorting task. Based on this data, a score for both the individual and class level was calculated.ResultsThe results show that the classmates‘ level of self-regulation predicted later individual self-regulation above the individual self-regulation score. While neither age nor gender moderated this relationship, there was a significant cross-level interaction: Especially individuals with a low level of cognitive flexibility gained from being surrounded by peers with a high level of cognitive flexibility.DiscussionWhile the results show that peers constitute an important social context for the development of self-regulation, this fact is often only a minor point in modern self-regulation theories.

Внутренняя конфликтность личности и ее связь с показателями сформированности профессионального «Я» в структуре индивидуальности у студентов психологических специальностей

Introduction. The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at identifying the peculiarities of the connection between the severity of internal conflict and a complex of psychological and socio-psychological characteristics of an individual in the structure of individuality as a subject of professional socialization. Theoretical analysis. The analysis of research results in the scientific literature revealed the presence of conflicting data regarding the connection between internal conflict and the productivity of professional activities, including representatives of helping professions. Empirical analysis. Correlation connections have been identified that allow us to draw a conclusion about the role of the severity of an individual’s internal conflict in the formation of professionally significant personal and socio-psychological properties in the structure of individuality, ensuring the success of mastering and implementing professional activities by future psychologists. Conclusion. Internal conflict in future psychologists can be combined with low levels of self-regulation and volitional efforts, difficulties in demonstrating the “Adult” ego-position in conditions of interpersonal interaction, but at the same time, internal conflict does not prevent the manifestation of responsiveness and sincerity in conditions of contact interaction as professionally significant qualities formed in the conditions of professional socialization.

Awareness of the disease and attitude to treatment in patients with various mental disorders at the initial stages of the disease

IntroductionAn important aspect in providing effective psychiatric care and treatment is the formation of an adequate perception of their mental disorder in patients and awareness of the need for treatment, especially at the initial stages of the disease. Patients’ misunderstanding of their own psychopathological manifestations can act as a serious obstacle to their compliance and lead to an increase in the frequency of exacerbations and repeated hospitalizations.ObjectivesTo assess the attitude to the disease and treatment in patients with various mental disorders at the initial stages of the disease.MethodsClinical and psychopathological, psychological, statistical. The following scales were used: Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI, Hogan T.P. et al., 1983); Insight Scale for Psychosis (ISP, Birchwood M., 1994); Questionnaire “Style of self-regulation of behavior” (SSPM, V.I. Morosanova, 1988) and others. 17 patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder (BD, F31.xxx, ICD-10) were examined, the average age of patients was 25.52±4.55 years and 39 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (F20.1xx and F23.1xx, ICD-10), the average age of patients was 29.29±9.71. The duration of the disorder in both groups of patients was 0.5-3 years.ResultsA comparative analysis of the average scores of the scale of attitude to the disease revealed significant differences in the groups (p≤0.01). Patients with schizophrenia had a lower awareness of their disease (2.31±0.91 points) than patients with bipolar disorder (3.59±0.76 points). Correlation analysis revealed reliable connections (p≤0.01) between the scales of attitude to the disease and drugs and the self-regulation questionnaire. In patients with schizophrenia, deeper violations were found in the links of self-regulation, such as programming and planning when assessing the presence of a mental disorder and deterioration of their condition due to discontinuation of medication (r=0.38 and r=0.36, respectively). The low level of self-regulation in general and the rigidity of negative attitudes in awareness of the disease and the need for treatment also have a negative impact on compliance with the medication regimen. No such correlations were found in patients with bipolar disorder: they were more aware of the presence of a mental disorder and the need for treatment, but the degree of compliance with the medication regimen was not high enough.ConclusionsThe treatment of patients with mental disorders requires an integrated approach with the mandatory inclusion of a psychoeducational component in order to form an adequate model of their disease and an understanding of the expected risks when therapy is discontinued. Psychoeducation is especially relevant in the early stages of the disease, both for patients with schizophrenia and with BD.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

CHARACTERISTICS OF LONELINESS EXPERIENCE AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SELF-REGULATION

The paper examines the characteristics of adolescents’ loneliness experience via the lens of individual differences in self-regulation. The study included 82 participants aged 13 to 14. The levels of self-regulation were identified by means of cluster analysis. To investigate the specifics of loneliness experience in the groups of respondents with the outlined levels of self-regulation, a Kruskal–Wallis H test was used. The study found statistically significant differences in the characteristics of loneliness experience among adolescent respondents with high, medium, and low levels of self-regulation.

Ответственность как индивидуально-психологическая предпосылка осознанного поведения личности

The problem of the conscious, independent, flexible and responsible behavior of a person acts as an urgent and insufficiently researched one. The need for the conscious self-regulation of the behavior and activity is especially important when making the decisions in the uncertain life situations, in the dynamically changing conditions of the human existence. The purpose of the study is to identify differences in the components of locus of control and self-regulation in individuals with different levels of responsibility. Methodological complex: test “Express diagnostics of responsibility”, “Locus of control” E.G. Ksenofontova, questionnaire “Style of self-regulation of behavior” by V. I. Morosanova. Processing methods: Kruskal - Wallis H -test and Mann - Whitney U -test. It was revealed that subjects with a high level of responsibility have an internal locus of control in almost all areas of life. They are inclined to plan and program their activities and their results, respond flexibly when conditions change, and have a high level of self-regulation of behavior and activity. Subjects with an average level of responsibility have an internal locus of control in the sphere of achievements and in the sphere of interpersonal communication, showing an external type in the sphere of health. They are prone to passivity, denial of activity in the case of assessing results as unattainable, and in situations where difficulties arise, they are not ready to change their activities. Subjects with a low level of responsibility predominantly have an external locus of control in various areas of life and a low level of self-regulation. The obtained results state that the level of the responsibility of an individual determines the system of his regulatory capabilities. The ability to behave responsibly affects the direction of a person's life, the possibilities of carrying out the activities, the quality of this activity and its results.

Correlation of Self-Regulation on Enhancing Adolescent Self-Reliance in Preventing Drug Abuse in Medan City

Referring to the World Drugs Report 2020, there has been an increase in global drug use and illicit substance abuse. In 2018, approximately 269 million people worldwide were using drugs. This study aims to examine the influence of self-regulation on the resilience of teenagers in preventing drug abuse. This is a quantitative analytical study with a cross-sectional design. The study population consists of 17,906 students from public vocational schools in Medan City, with a sample of 200 individuals selected through random cluster sampling. The instruments used were questionnaires, and data analysis was conducted using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses with simple regression tests. The data processing results from the 200 student respondents revealed that 49.5% were male and 50.5% were female. Among them, 56.5% had low levels of self-regulation, while 43.0% exhibited sufficient resilience. Bivariate analysis using the Chi-Square test yielded a r-value of 0.0001 (r < 0.05), indicating a significant relationship between self-regulation and teenage resilience in Medan City regarding drug abuse prevention. Referring to the findings of this study can be generally understood that self-regulation influences adolescent resilience in preventing drug abuse

The Effect of Sexual Objectification on Dishonesty.

In daily life, women often experience various forms of sexual objectification such as being stared at in public settings and receiving unsolicited sexual remarks on social media. These incidents could have damaging effects on women's physical and mental health, necessitating ways to respond to the experience. Researchers have provided burgeoning evidence demonstrating the effects of sexual objectification on various psychological, emotional, and cognitive outcomes. However, relatively few researchers have tested how sexually objectified people behaviorally react to the objectification experience. To address this knowledge gap, we aimed to test whether sexual objectification increases dishonesty among women and reveal one potential underlying psychological mechanism. We predicted that sexual objectification increases dishonesty serially through higher levels of relative deprivation and lower levels of self-regulation. We conducted two experiments (valid N = 150 and 279, respectively) to test the predictions and found that participants who experienced sexual objectification reported greater dishonest tendencies than those who did not (Experiments 1 and 2). Moreover, relative deprivation and self-regulation serially mediated the effect of sexual objectification on dishonesty (Experiment 2). In the current experiments, we highlight the essential role of relative deprivation and self-regulation in explaining how sexual objectification increases dishonesty and various related forms of antisocial behavior.

Психологічні особливості саморегуляції осіб із проявами духовної кризи

B a c k g r o u n d . The relevance of studying the problem of the role of self-regulation while person experiencing a spiritual crisis, which is the key to the harmonious development of their potential in modern conditions, is substantiated. Approaches to defining the content of the concepts of self-regulation, spirituality, and spiritual crisis are analyzed. The main components of self-regulation and their content are considered. The understanding by Ukrainian and foreign authors of spirituality, types and tendencies of the spiritual crisis is analyzed. M e t h o d s . A study was conducted based on the characteristics of the ratio of the components and the level of self-regulation with the expe¬rience of a spiritual crisis of 50 people aged 24 to 68, 25 of them are Ukrainians and 25 Poles. In order to determine the peculiarities of self¬regulation, the technique "Style of self-regulation of behavior" by V.I. Morosanova was chosen, which allows to reveal the expressiveness of the level of self-regulation and its main components: planning, modeling, programming, etc. Method of "Spiritual Crisis Diagnostics" by L.V. Shutova and A.V. Lyashchuk, which diagnosed indicators of progressive and regressive tendencies of spiritual crisis and existential vacuum was used to study the signs of spiritual crisis. R e s u l t s . According to the results of the empirical study, the dominance (64 %) of the average level of self-regulation was revealed. It was also found that the group with a low level of self-regulation, with insufficient formation of the components of modeling and programming, is charac¬terized by a greater expressiveness of experiencing a spiritual crisis with a predominance of a progressive tendency. С o n c l u s i o n . The results of the correlation analysis proved the inverse relationship of the components of self-regulation of programming and modeling with the features of experiencing a spiritual crisis, existential vacuum, in particular. Conclusions regarding age and national charac¬teristics of self-regulation of personality with manifestations of spiritual crisis are formulated.

Maternal sensitivity in early childhood and body mass index in adolescence: A population-based study on the role of self-regulation as a mediator

Maternal sensitivity has been implicated in various aspects of child health and development, including overweight. However, long-term effects, the role of paternal sensitivity and the explanatory pathways are unclear. This study examined whether maternal sensitivity in early childhood is prospectively associated with adolescent body mass index and whether children's self-regulation mediates this relation. Data from 540 children and their mothers were available from a large cohort study in the Netherlands. Maternal sensitivity was assessed at child ages 1, 3, and at 4 years paternal sensitivity was also included. Children's self-regulation skills were observed at age 3, eating behaviour was assessed at 10 years, and child BMI was measured at 13 years. Longitudinal structural equation modelling was applied. The cross-sectional association between maternal sensitivity and child self-regulation was significant, while lower levels of self-regulation and higher levels of food responsiveness and restrained eating predicted a higher child BMI at 13 years. Furthermore, a direct association of paternal sensitivity at 4 years with BMI at 13 years was found, but only in girls. Maternal sensitivity was not directly associated with child BMI after adjusting for covariates. Our findings showed the importance of self-regulation in the early years for subsequent weight development. Nevertheless, as self-regulation could not explain the relationship between parenting and child weight, research should focus on the contribution of other contextual factors, such as feeding styles and the social environment, to this relationship.

A supported flipped learning model for mathematics gives safety nets for online and blended learning

Flipped learning is a popular pedagogy, and its benefits, challenges and implementations have recently been discussed widely. This study presents the implementation of a new ‘supported’ flipped learning model for teaching foundation-year mathematics, built on mathematics anxiety principles. Effective flipped learning requires a good course structure, and therefore the purpose of this study is to explore student perspectives and experiences of the structure of the supported flipped learning model. Interviews were carried out with students who took a foundation mathematics module between 2016 and 2021 (n = 34), including cohorts who experienced it in blended forms and entirely online. One overarching theme of structure and online working encapsulates six themes forming the discussion: ‘timing is important’; ‘structure of materials’; ‘online enables access’; ‘distractions online and at home’; ‘finding online difficult’; and ‘better than traditional teaching methods’. The results show that students from a range of disciplines, including non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) courses, are positive about the supported flipped learning model for studying mathematics, believing it superior to traditional teaching methods. The structure of this model gives students a sense of progression while providing a safety net for students with lower levels of self-regulation who often find flipped environments challenging. The structure of lessons, the materials used, and delivery infrastructure are crucial to success. The new model presented here advances current use of flipped learning for mathematics, and potentially other subjects, in higher education. The structure has also been shown to be appropriate for rapid transition to online learning.

Problems of Organizing Critical Thinking Training for University Students

The paper aims to determine the factors that hinder forming and developing critical thinking of students and ways to overcome them in higher education. First, it is a problem of low motivation and a low level of self-regulation in critical thinking training. These problems reduce the effectiveness of all those methods and techniques for forming critical thinking that teachers use. We propose applying differentiated learning (multilevel learning) as one of the most effective ways to solve the problem of organizing critical thinking training. Moreover, we consider that at the beginning of training, it is necessary to determine the personal qualities of students, such as purposefulness, self-discipline, perseverance, tolerance, academic motivation, and self-regulation of cognitive activity. During the learning process, it is necessary to use multilevel tasks and exercises to cover all categories of students. This is because these tasks are based on some volitional qualities of the personality and motivation for learning. This approach is systemic and makes it possible to achieve high efficiency in teaching critical thinking.

САМОРЕГУЛЯЦИЯ СТУДЕНЧЕСКОЙ МОЛОДЕЖИ В ПЕРИОД ПАНДЕМИИ COVID-19

The empirical study presented was aimed at the identification of the mechanisms of regulatory violations among students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The features of protective strategies, personal characteristics and basic beliefs associated with a sense of security were studied. Two profiles of self-regulation are identified based on the indicators of the questionnaire “Style of self-regulation of behavior” by V. I. Morosanova. It was revealed that in the subjects with a low level of self-regulation, the concept of “safety” is connected in meaning with concepts directly and indirectly describing the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. Low values of basic beliefs about self-worth, ineffective defensive strategies in the form of repression and regression, as well as high accuracy, perseverance and foresight were also found in this group. The semantic relationship between the concept of “security” and various manifestations of the pandemic was poorly expressed in the group of subjects with a high level of self-regulation. In this group, a developed system of basic beliefs about self-worth, effective defense mechanisms in the form of rationalization, low indicators of accuracy, foresight and perseverance were identified. The results of the study can be used to identify violations of self-regulation in a group of young people and their psychological correction in the context of global crises.

Overparenting: The current situation in Greece comparing to European and Worldwide context.

Overparenting is a parental style that seems to be popular in all over the world. Specific parental characteristics and multi-cultural differences seemed to play an important role in this parental style to appear. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to identify the factors shaping overparenting and the impact in children, adolescents and young adults in Greece, comparing to European and Worldwide context. A literature review was conducted using online databases and words such as «overparenting», «helicopter parents», «intrusive parenting», «parental interference», and «parental control». Overparenting seems to be related to negative effects in children’s psychosocial and mental health. It was associated with lack of autonomy, low levels of self-regulation and mastery, which affected social adjustment skills and higher levels of anxiety, depressive symptoms, poor self-regulation and low levels of life satisfaction in children. In Greece, overparenting was related to poor school adjustment, obesity, internet addiction and post-traumatic stress from bullying. Overparenting is becoming more and more popular, so more research is becoming a necessity. It is important for every state to support and consult parents, from pregnancy to school, with specialized programs and teachers’ training with the collaboration of social scientists. Further research of the phenomenon, in Greece and cross-culturally, is however needed.

Multidimensional Interoceptive Awareness, Psychosomatic Symptoms, and Risk for Eating Disorders in a Female at Birth Adolescent Sample

Aim: This study aimed to identify specific interoceptive awareness dimensions related to the risk for eating disorders (ED) in a sample of female adolescents. Subjects and Method: A sample of 317 female adolescents (Mage=17.04±1.22) completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), the Psychophysiological Questionnaire (QPF-R), and the Eating Disorder Inventory 3 (EDI 3). The scores obtained at the MAIA subscales and the QPF-R were employed to predict the eating disorder risk composite score derived from the EDI-3. Results: The results showed that lower levels of self-regulation and trusting and higher levels of body listening significantly predicted the ED risk. Moreover, higher levels of enteric symptoms and lower levels of sympathetic symptoms were able to predict the ED risk in adolescents Conclusion: These findings point out the importance of discriminating the dimensions of interoceptive awareness for the assessment of ED risk and the central role of body signals’ awareness for the treatment of ED.

Personality Traits as Predictors of Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Engagement among College Students in Ghana: A Dimensional Multivariate Approach

The study explored personality traits as they predicted self-regulated learning and academic engagement among college students in Ghana. A sample of 652 (return rate was 87.0%) was drawn from an accessible population of 17,396. Adapted versions of Taiwanese Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire (22 items; α = 0.84), University Student Engagement Inventory (15 items; α = 0.81), and Big-Five Personality Inventory (30 items; α = 0.70) were used for the data collection. The data collected were analysed using multivariate multiple regression. The study revealed that student-teachers exhibited lower levels of self-regulated learning and academic engagement. Again, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness aspects of the personality traits predicted self-regulated learning and academic engagements of students. Findings from this study serve as a beacon for teacher education programs in Ghana to scale up their efforts in ensuring that preservice teachers are able to self-regulate their learning. As preservice teachers who will soon be practicing, they cannot help their students self-regulate their learning if they themselves have low levels of self-regulation and engagement. Students’ success can only be realized when learners are able to manage their own learning and engage in academic activities.

OUT OF CONTROL: TEENAGERS, SELF-CONTROL, AND RISKY BEHAVIORS

Obiectives. This systematic review aimed to explore the relationship between low self-control and risky behaviors, in order to identify prophylactic and interventional measures to reduce the dangers to which some adolescents may be exposed. Material and methods. Using the APA PsycNet and PubMed platforms, studies that investigated the link between self-control and risk were sought. Of the 2707 articles initially obtained, it was opted for studies in English, with the average age of the participants between 14-21 years old. Results. The 61 selected articles revealed seven categories of risks associated with a low level of self-regulation: substance use – 28 studies, aggressive manifestation – 13 studies, delinquency – 10 studies, risky sexual behaviors – 8 studies, living the situation of a victim – 4 studies, gambling – 2 studies, other risky behaviors (consumption of unhealthy foods, compulsive manifestations, executive dysfunctions, etc.) – 9 studies. Some authors have shown that self-control can hold both a mediator and a moderator role between certain predictors and risky behaviors. Also, the relationship between self-control and risky behaviors can be influenced by intermediate variables: substance use, volume of the left orbitofrontal cortex (mediators); school climate (moderator). Five studies indicated that boys showed less self-control capacity than girls, and two other studies showed the opposite. Conclusions. Designing and implementing some individual and group intervention programs, with a focus on acquiring behavioral control skills, can be useful in preventing risky behaviors in adolescents, especially substance use, aggressive manifestations, delinquency, etc. It is also important that the management of one’s own emotions be learned from pre-adolescence, the involvement of parents being essential in this psycho-educational approach. Keywords: self-control; adolescence; impulsivity; risky behaviors.

Особенности саморегуляции у осужденных, совершивших преступления при рецидиве

The article considers the personality traits of criminals identified on the basis of MMPI. Various types of offenders’ motives for criminal aggression are analyzed. The article describes the value-normative approach to the study of the personality of a criminal, imple-mented by A.R. Ratinov and the staff of the laboratory of the Institute of Public Prosecution led by him. Considerable attention is paid to the elaboration of issues of assessing the risk factors of repeated crime when deciding on the release of convicts on parole and predicting their behavior after the release. It is shown that an important mechanism in the commission of a crime, as well as any act, is self-regulation of the individual. It is hypothesized that convicts who have committed repeated crimes have lower levels of self-regulation than persons who have been convicted for the first time, which contributes to the commission of repeated crimes. The features of self-regulation of offenders have also been revealed, taking into account the structure of their temperament (according to V.M. Rusalov) and the nature of the crime committed (violent and mercenary). This will allow employees of the psychological service of the penitentiary system to prepare convicts for release in a more individualized manner.

Выраженность процессов саморегуляции у педагогов с разным видом профессионального самоотношения

The article, based on the presented empirical material, reveals the problem of professional self-attitude and its types among teachers with different levels of expression of conscious self-regulation. The study covered 157 teachers of comprehensive schools of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra. The age of the examined is from 31 to 45 years. We used the technique “Attitude to yourself as a professional” and the questionnaire “Style of self-regulation of behavior”. On the basis of the obtained results, it was proved that the processes of conscious self-regulation are interconnected with the magnitude of activity and positivity of professional self-attitude of teachers, as well as that subjects with different levels of self-regulation (high, medium and low) differ in the dominant types of attitudes to themselves as a professional. It has been shown that the more developed regulatory processes are, the more active and positive the professional self-presentation of teachers is – a higher level of claims, combined with a positive representation and acceptance of a professional, expressed by the installation on professional self-development. It was revealed that teachers with a low level of self-regulation are distinguished by a passive-negative attitude towards themselves as a professional, while teachers with a high level are characterized by an active-positive attitude towards themselves, with the dominance of positivity, and teachers with an average level of self-regulation have a pronounced balanced professional self-attitude. It has been established that for the regulatory process of “programming”, the installation on professional self-development is of leading importance, while for the regulatory process, “flexibility” is a significant indicator - the idea of oneself as a professional.

Features of Critical Thinking of Individual Entrepreneurs With Different Levels of Self-Regulation

In the crisis conditions of entrepreneurs business functioning in Russian, it is important to develop critical thinking in conjunction with the skills of self-regulation of behavior. It is assumed that entrepreneurs with different styles of self-regulation differ in the level of critical thinking, and there is also a relationship between the styles of self-regulation and the level of critical thinking. The theoretical basis of the study is the idea of the relationship between the degree of formation of individual self-regulation and the productivity of performing various types of professional activities. The sample of the study consisted of 140 individual entrepreneurs engaged in entrepreneurial activity for more than two years, aged from 30 to 50 years. We used techniques to analyze the style of self-regulation of behavior, volitional self-regulation, critical thinking and mental abilities. The study allowed us to expand the understanding of the relationship between critical thinking and self-regulation, to reveal the content aspects of critical thinking of entrepreneurs with different levels of self-regulation of behavior. We found out that in the group of entrepreneurs with a high level of self-regulation of behavior, there is a high level of volitional self-regulation, perseverance, self-control, information processing skills and critical thinking skills. We came to conclusion that there are differences at the content and semantic level among entrepreneurs, differentiated by the type of self-regulation. For entrepreneurs with a low level of self-regulation, it is planned to conduct a program for the development of critical thinking.

National Survey on the importance of sleep in the quality of academic life and mental health of college students in Portugal.

The academic years are a period of vulnerability when considering sleep problems and mental health. Growing evidence suggests poor sleep patterns are related to impaired academic life and lower psychological well-being. The aim of this study was to explore the importance of sleep habits and report the associations of sleep problems with quality of academic life and different dimensions of mental health (e.g. worries, anxiety, self-regulation and resilience) in a large sample of college students. The HBSC/JUnP data base comprises a representative sample of 2991 college students (n=2203; 73.7% women), aged from 18 to 35 years old (22.43±3.83). Participants socio-demographic characteristics included sex and age. Besides, participants were inquired about sleep duration, characteristics of their sleep habits, questions about quality academic life, namely feeling bored in university, pressure from academic work and academic performance perception and mental health, namely worries, anxiety, self-regulation and resilience. Results showed most young people report an average value for sleep habits (M=4.41; SD=1.46) and that they sleep an average of 7 hours a night. More than half of the young people report either being affected by difficulty falling asleep, showing signs of sleep onset insomnia (67.7%). The conducted analyses indicated that the difficulty falling asleep (having insomnia) was associated with poor/reasonable academic performance perception, higher levels of concerns and anxiety, and lower levels of self-regulation and resilience, thus jeopardizing the mental health of college students. In turn, that characteristics of sleep was also associated with poor sleep habits. In conclusion, this study showed that poor sleep habits were associated with a worse level of academic performance perception and low levels of mental health among college students in Portugal. Universities offer enormous potential as settings to promote sleep-health programs since they can reach many young people who are future-oriented and willing to learn. There is then the need for academic researchers, teaching staff and health professionals working for college students health, to develop and test a wide array of sleep-promoting interventions (e.g., education classes, online programs, adjustment of class time), thus preventing negative secondary outcomes.