Table 1.
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).