A study put an exact number on it.
recently found that sleeping for a set amount of extra minutes per night positively contributed to participants’ overall well-being, pro-sociability, gratitude, resilience, and “flourishing.”The study, which randomly assigned bedtimes to a group of 90 younger people, found that the extended sleep benefited participants, while reduced sleep seemed to damage their well-being.
“We saw that people who increased their sleep by 46 minutes a night ended up feeling more resilience, gratitude, life satisfaction, and purpose in life,” the study’s principal investigator Dr Michael K. Scullin, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University,conducted by the team found that those who had a good-quality sleep that lasted from seven to nine hours were 7-45% more likely to donate to charity.
However, Dr Scullin added that “When people were cut back on sleep by a mild average of 37 minutes a night, they experienced drops in mood, resilience, flourishing and gratitude.”It might be tough to simply stitch a 46-minute sleep extension onto your existing routine, and there’s no reason to believe the number is hard and fast ― it’s just the amount that the people in the “extended sleep” part of this study kipped more for.
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