Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: People's mental health and wellbeing could fluctuate over the time of day, said lead study author Dr. Feifei Bu, principal research fellow in statistics and epidemiology at University College London, CNN Health reported. “On average, people seem to feel best early in the day and worst late at night,” she said. To find out how mental health and well‐being ebbed and flowed, researchers analyzed University College London data of 49,218 people who were surveyed more than a dozen times between March 2020 and March 2022, according to the study published in BMJ Mental Health. The data showed a trend of people generally reporting better mental health and well‐being earlier in the day, with less severe depressive symptoms and increased happiness, life satisfaction and sense of self‐worth, Bu said. “Time of day could affect people's mental health and well‐being, but people's mental state could also affect when they choose to respond to the survey,” she said. “While our findings are intriguing, they need to be replicated in other studies that fully address this possibility.”
Source: Mental Health Weekly
DOI: 10.1002/mhw.34335
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407384545