1) Do you get more or less sleep than you need?
| |
All |
Male |
Female |
| More |
17% |
19% |
14% |
| Less |
54% |
51% |
56%
|
| Just right amount |
28% |
28% |
28% |
| Don’t know |
1% |
2% |
2% |
While men and women answered similarly, different age groups did
not. The younger people are, the less well-rested they feel – 63 percent of 18
to 24-year-olds say they get less sleep than they need vs. 32 percent of
those 65 and older.
2) Do you think sleep loss is bad for you?
| |
All |
Male |
Female
|
| Yes |
75% |
72% |
77%
|
| No |
21% |
23% |
19% |
| Don’t know |
4% |
5% |
4%
|
People are eating right and exercising endlessly in the name of
good health. But they’re ignoring the third member of the "triumvirate of
health" – sleep. They know they need more sleep, but they aren’t getting
it.
3) What is the main consequence, for you, of not getting enough sleep?
| |
All |
Male |
Female |
| Loss of energy |
48% |
46% |
50% |
| Crankiness |
20% |
20% |
20%
|
| Less alert |
10% |
10% |
11%
|
| Less productive |
8% |
9% |
7%
|
| Other/Don’t know |
14% |
15% |
12% |
With half the respondents already admitting they don’t get enough
sleep in question 1, these results seem ominous. Lack of sleep is leaving
millions of people without the energy to work as hard - or play as hard – as
they’d like. The problem seems especially severe for seniors: some 61 percent
of those 65 and older cited "loss of energy" as a consequence of
insufficient sleep.
4) How much sleep do you average on weeknights?
| |
All |
Male |
Female
|
| Less than 5 hours |
8% |
9% |
7% |
| 5 to 6 hours |
20% |
20% |
19% |
| 6 to 7 hours |
30% |
29% |
30% |
| 7 to 8 hours |
23% |
22% |
23% |
| 8 or more hours |
19% |
18% |
20% |
| Don’t know |
1% |
1% |
3% |
More people suffer from a lack of sleep during the week, when,
given the demands that work puts on them, their need for sleep is perhaps
greatest.
5) How much sleep do you average on weekend nights?
| |
All |
Male |
Female
|
| Less than 5 hours |
6% |
5% |
7% |
| 5 to 6 hours |
11% |
9% |
13% |
| 6 to 7 hours |
21% |
21% |
22%
|
| 7 to 8 hours |
23% |
22% |
23%
|
| 8 or more hours |
38% |
42% |
34% |
| Don’t know |
1% |
1% |
1% |
Not until the weekend do people approach getting the amount of
sleep most adults need – 8 to 8.5 hours. In fact, double the number of people
sleep more than 8 hours on weekends as do during the week. Men are especially
likely to make up lost sleep on the weekends – the percentage sleeping more
than eight hours springs from 18 percent to 42 percent.
The BSC Sleep Deficit survey of 1,000 adults was conducted in
January 1994 by Bruskin/Goldring Research. The sampling error is + three
percent.
Source: The Better Sleep Council
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