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. 2018 Mar 14;9:252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00252

Table 1.

Overview of reported desires and resist attempts in relation to bedtime procrastination.

Desire Total desires Attempts to resist desires Percentage of desires resulting in a resist attempt BPS (p-value) BP duration (p-value)
Eating 661 156 23.60% 0.17 (0.01)* 0.23 (>0.001)*
Media use 574 129 22.47% 0.07 (0.34) 0.09 (0.18)
Leisure 451 158 35.03% 0.09 (0.21) 0.13 (0.06)
Sleep 421 260 61.76% 0.22 (0.001)* 0.17 (0.014)*
Social contact 314 44 14.01% 0.15 (0.03)* 0.14 (0.04)*
Work 291 19 6.53% -0.05 (0.48) 0.00 (0.99)
Coffee 264 40 15.15% 0.16 (0.02)* -0.00 (0.98)
Hygiene 230 15 6.52% 0.08 (0.23) 0.05 (0.43)
Tobacco 160 30 18.75% -0.01 (0.90) -0.06 (0.42)
Non-alcoholic drinks 157 9 5.73% 0.02 (0.81) -0.04 (0.53)
Sex 119 64 53.78% 0.09 (0.18) 0.01 (0.90)
Sports or Exercise 95 17 17.90% -0.02 (0.77) -0.01 (0.87)
Alcohol 72 30 41.67% 0.07 (0.30) 0.03 (0.71)
Spending 54 31 57.41% 0.14 (0.04)* 0.18 (0.01)*
Something else 28 5 17.86% 0.01 (0.94) 0.03 (0.67)

The total number of experienced desires, sorted by frequency (“Total Desires”) as well as the number of resist attempts correlated with both measures of bedtime procrastination (BPS, “Bedtime Procrastination Scale”) using Spearman’s rank correlation method. The asterisk indicates p-value < 0.05 (please note that no corrections for multiple comparisons were carried out).