Table 3.

Association between election-related change in sleep and change in mental health metrics. All variables involved in these correlations are difference scores: the difference between that variable on election day and the average of the early October period (Oct 1–13). Variables labeled “adj” are adjusted for day of the week (see Methods). TST = Total Sleep Time, TIB = Time in Bed, PANAS NA = Negative Affect subscale, PANAS PA = Positive Affect subscale, mPHQ9 = modified Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (depression scale without suicidality question), Bold p-values < .05 for exploratory analyses. An asterisk by the p-value indicates correlations that remained significant with a Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) false discovery rate (FDR) correction.

	Correlate	N	r	CI Lower	CI Upper	p-value
TST (adj)	stress	219	−0.23	−0.35	−0.10	<0.001*
	mPHQ9	211	−0.10	−0.23	0.03	0.137
	PANAS NA	211	−0.20	−0.33	−0.07	0.003*
	PANAS PA	211	−0.09	−0.23	0.04	0.177
	alcohol (adj)	179	−0.23	−0.36	−0.09	0.002*
Sleep Efficiency	stress	212	−0.25	−0.37	−0.11	<0.001*
	mPHQ9	205	−0.17	−0.30	−0.03	0.016
	PANAS NA	205	−0.23	−0.36	−0.10	<0.001*
	PANAS PA	205	−0.12	−0.26	0.01	0.074
	alcohol (adj)	174	−0.09	−0.24	0.06	0.228
TIB (adj)	stress	214	−0.05	−0.19	0.08	0.430
	mPHQ9	206	0.02	−0.12	0.15	0.825
	PANAS NA	206	−0.05	−0.19	0.09	0.467
	PANAS PA	206	0.05	−0.09	0.19	0.479
	alcohol (adj)	175	−0.15	−0.30	−0.01	0.041