Strube, Justine (2023) Is it Good, Bad, or Just Fuzzy? A Newspaper Qualitative Content Analysis to Explore the Public’s Perception of Revenge Bedtime Procrastination and its Potential for Resource Generation. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Our modern society’s chronic sleep deprivation and its negative implications for work and nonwork domains call for a preliminary investigation of revenge bedtime procrastination (RBP) – the deliberate delaying of bedtime to free up leisure time. Since recovery research and conservation of resources theory suggest not only negative but also positive effects of RBP in terms of resource generation despite sleep reduction, the present study examines what public perceptions of RBP can tell us about its effects. To this end, 114 statements on RBP from 63 international newspaper articles were segmented and analyzed by means of qualitative content analysis regarding the speaking actors, their attitudes toward RBP, and the RBP aspects and resource experiences mentioned. The results suggest that the public – and particularly the expert actors – perceive RBP mainly in a negative way. Very few statements by actors characterized as working people convey a positive attitude and indicate the resource building potential of RBP occurring under certain conditions. Aspects of RBP that dominate public perceptions include a variety of different causes (lack of time, lack of control, stress, COVID-19 pandemic, technology), consequences (sleep reduction, bedtime procrastination, recovery experiences), and handlings (time management, cognitive measures, establishing breaks during day, RBP in homeopathic doses). These different topics and attitudes may be helpful in generating hypotheses for future research. Further, the discussion of when delaying bedtime might be healthy or unhealthy and how to appropriately encourage or restrict this behavior offers implications for practice.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Yan, N. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2023 08:49 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2023 08:49 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2753 |
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