Dongfang.com March 21 news: How did you sleep today? On the occasion of World Sleep Day, Zhilian Research Institute and Just So Soul Research Institute jointly released the “2022 China Workplace Youth Sleep Quality Report” (hereinafter referred to as the report).
The report shows that more than half of young people in the workplace have to stay up until midnight every day before going to bed. Only 2% of them, like Gu Ailing, can sleep for 10 hours a day, while more than 70% of young people sleep. The average sleep time per day is less than 7 hours. From the perspective of the workplace, transportation and logistics, real estate and construction, and IT and Internet have become the three industries that lack sleep.
The results of the report show that the status of young people staying up late also has different performances due to differences in gender, region, living environment, industry, and position. In terms of gender, men are more likely to stay up late than women. 15% of men go to bed after 2 am, while women choose to go to bed between 22:00 and 0:00.
It is worth noting that the report shows that the time to fall asleep of this generation of young people is also affected by the status of residence, generally the more personal space, the later the sleep. The data shows that the proportion of people living alone and sleeping alone who go to bed after 2 o’clock is 17% and 14% respectively, and once someone shares the bed, the proportion of sleeping after 2 o’clock is less than 7%.
From the perspective of the workplace, compared with other industries, people in the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry are most likely to go to bed before 22:00, and entertainment is the most likely to stay up until after 2:00. Industry (culture/media/entertainment/sports), accounting for over 20%. From the perspective of position, marketing/advertising/public relations people are the most able to “stay up late”, 19% of them choose to go to bed after 2 o’clock, followed by legal affairs, operations and sales.
Interestingly, the index of staying up late varies from place to place. Among the young people who generally stay up late, 13% of Northeasterners choose to go to bed before 22:00, and the proportion of other regions who choose this option has not exceeded 10%. Choosing to go to bed after 2 o’clock is also far higher than that in other areas.
While staying up late and going to bed late have become popular trends among contemporary young people, lack of sleep and insomnia have also become troubles that plague most of them. Of course, this does not include Gu Ailing, who recently won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. She once said that the reason why she can win ski championships one by one is that she has a secret weapon: sleep. She needs to sleep every night. Get 10 hours of sleep.
In fact, according to the data of this report, only 2% of young people can sleep 10 hours a day like Gu Ailing, and 77% of young people sleep less than 7 hours a day on average. Over 20% of South Chinese people sleep less than 6 hours a day.
From the perspective of work, among young people who sleep less than 7 hours, they are engaged in transportation/transportation/logistics/warehousing (84.1%), real estate/construction (82.0%), IT/communication/electronics /Internet (80.5%) has the highest proportion of people working. As the R&D and technical personnel who work full hours in the public impression are relatively not demanding about their sleep time, data shows that 30% of R&D personnel can sleep for more than 8 hours a day. On the contrary, workers in legal affairs, operations, marketing/public relations/advertising positions became the top three lack of sleep, and 29% of legal workers sleep less than 6 hours a day.
The survey data shows that sleepiness during the day, difficulty falling asleep, and poor sleep quality have become the three major sleep problems that plague contemporary young people. %), workplace stress (46.1%), and loneliness (35.9%) are the three major factors that lead to their insomnia.
As modern people who are strongly attached to mobile phones and mobile devices, a small pop-up window is enough to make them sleepless at night. The report shows that among the many pop-up messages on mobile phones that cause insomnia, “someone in the work group @ your 99+ message” (40.7%), “Repayment tips: your repayment date is coming soon” (29.7%), “Subject: Are you asleep?” (26.6%), etc. are the most likely to cause insomnia.
On the one hand, contemporary young people are well aware of their worrying sleep conditions, and on the other hand, they are also well aware of the physical and mental health problems that may be caused by staying up late and insomnia. From the perspective of gender differences, although men’s staying up late is more serious than women, women are more likely to perceive the harm caused by staying up late than men. But what’s interesting is that young people who suffer from insomnia by watching short videos also like to use short video platforms to find ways to relieve sleep disorders, while only 15% of young people seek help from doctors after insomnia.
（Wang Xu）