The Relationship of Stress & Coping Style to Reported Sleep Adequacy Francis W. Craig Mansfield University Break ice… and introduce topic can begin with a story to grab the audience’s attention! Make the audience understand why your topic is relevant!! You are the Authority in the Room

Introduction What is the goal of your talk? What will be the structure/main points of your talk? This of this as your “verbal abstract”

Review of Literature n Background n Main Topic #1 n Main Topic #2 n Main Topic #3 n Etc n Analyses of literature…

Reduced Sleep is Unhealthy lay down the background info, good place for general/descriptive statistics n General effects of reduced sleep on health, behavior –$15.9 billion in health care costs –cognitive abilities/traffic accident/gen prod. n Effects of reduced sleep on lives of college aged students- increasing prob. –poor grades, greater stress –greater accident, lower QOL

[narrowing the scope] A Health Problem in Students n Environmental and Social Conditions contribute to loss of sleep (Carscaddon, 1991) For instance n Dorm Life n Relationship Difficulties n Poor Time Management n Assignments with Time Pressure n Not all students experiencing these conditions “lose sleep”. Why? (note that you are baiting the audience here with a question)

Coping Styles May Affect Sleep Quantity n Students at higher risk that sleep well may “cope” differently than those that don’t. n Report of Less Sleep = Poorer coping –(Hall & Johnson, 1995) 82 students n sleep decrease, task focused styles decreased and emotion focused increased. This is the part of the presentation that you should hit the audience with the research data more intensely... This “research-based” section should compose ~50-60% of presentation. ALSO, Note the research nature of this title.

Results: Coping/Sleep (throw in a chart/picture etc.) NS Hall & Johnson, 1995

Results: Reported Life Stress P<.01 Hall & Johnson, 1995

Discussion of Research/Literature (put it all together…. What does your critical review of the literature find… what are the interesting observations you have after reviewing all this material?) n Reported Sleep Quality is related to emotion, but not task focused coping. –Emotion sleep depriving (rumination), task-focus not sleep enhancing n Reported sleep is related to an avoidant style of handling problems –go to bed when not sleepy.. Decrease association of bed with sleep (Duncan, 1997) n Poor sleep is related in increased life stress across control and demand dimensions

Final Conclusion n Review of major points and findings in each n Wrap up why you conclude what you conclude.

Other points n Reference list…. Not necessary, but references should be in slides or stated in talk n DO NOT READ FROM ONE’S PAPER n MINUTES…. = LT 10 SLIDES! n PREPARE, PREPARE, PREPARE.