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  • Psychology
  • Health behavior

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  • Limited understanding of how non-clinical populations perceive sleep quality.
  • Existing sleep quality concepts are primarily based on clinical sleep disorder criteria.
  • Need for research reflecting normal sleepers' perspectives.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the essence of sleep experience among lay individuals without sleep disorders.
  • To understand lay people's concepts of sleep quality in daily life.
  • To identify factors influencing perceived sleep quality from a non-clinical viewpoint.

Main Methods:

  • Phenomenological approach to capture lived experiences.
  • Development and administration of a sentence completion questionnaire.
  • Quota sampling (n=64) for diverse demographic representation (gender, age, education).

Main Results:

  • Inductive analysis yielded nine categories of sleep experience.
  • Key facets identified: daytime functioning, nighttime interruptions, and pre-sleep state.
  • Experienced sleep quality is influenced by factors beyond just the night's progression.

Conclusions:

  • Findings highlight the multifaceted nature of perceived sleep quality for normal sleepers.
  • Results can inform the development of psychometric measures for non-clinical populations.
  • Insights support the design of health self-monitoring applications for sleep data visualization.