Sulit Tidur? Mungkin Perkawinan Anda Penyebabnya

Kualitas tidur ternyata bisa terkait dengan kualitas perkawinan anda. Hal ini ditemukan oleh Wendy M. Troxel, seorang psikolog dari University of Pittsburgh, pada 2000 perempuan dari berbagai ras yang menjadi sampel penelitiannya.

Perempuan yang bahagia dengan perkawinannya ditemukan lebih mudah tidur, lebih nyenyak tidurnya, dan lebih jarang memiliki gangguan tidur. Mereka juga lebih jarang terbangun lebih awal atau tiba-tiba di tengah malam daripada perempuan yang perkawinannya tidak membahagiakan.

Menurut Troxel, ada dua arah kemungkinan penjelasan hubungan ini. Yang pertama, sulit tidur menyebabkan seseorang lebih mudah marah dan memiliki tingkat frustrasi dan toleransi yang lebih rendah – yang pada gilirannya dapat memicu pertengkaran dengan pasangannya. Kemungkinan kedua yang diduga Troxel, perkawinan yang tidak bahagia membuat perempuan stres, dan stres inilah yang menurunkan kualitas tidur mereka.

Sumber:
For Women, a Happy Marriage Means Sweet Dreams – Yahoo! News

clipped from news.yahoo.com Troxel and her colleagues reviewed data on about 2,000 married women who participated in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). The women were an average age of 46 years. Just over half were white, 20 percent were black, 9 percent were Hispanic, 9 percent were Chinese, and 11 percent were Japanese. All of the women reported their sleep quality, the state of their marriage, how often they had difficulty falling asleep, if they stayed asleep, and how early they woke up. Happily married women had less trouble getting to sleep, had fewer sleep complaints, had more restful sleep and were less likely to wake up early or awaken in the middle of the night than women whose marriages were less than ideal. findings appeared to hold up across racial lines. The only groups that the findings weren’t statistically significant for were Chinese and Japanese women, but Troxel suspects this may be because there weren’t as many Chinese or Japanese women in the study as white and black women.