Women were more likely than men to snooze their alarm to sleep longer, by an average of 10 minutes. However, overall, more than half of the study participants ended up snoozing their alarm, making it a fairly common habit.
Scientists emphasize that because of its prevalence, snoozing alarms can have negative consequences for sleep quality and people's health. Research published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Scientists conducted a study among users of an app that allows you to track the duration and quality of your sleep. In total, they managed to collect data on more than three million nights, mostly from residents of the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and Germany. Among them, 45 percent of people were frequent users of the snooze function, that is, they did it more than 80 percent of the time. Residents of Sweden were the most likely to snooze their alarm and sleep after it for the longest time, while residents of Japan were the least likely. On average, they used this function twice a night.
As expected, the researchers found that people who went to bed earlier were less likely to snooze their alarm. They also used the feature less often on weekends than on weekdays. A longer sleep, more than nine hours, was more likely to result in a snooze than those who slept the recommended seven to nine hours or even less than seven hours. However, the researchers doubt that the extra minutes of sleep after the alarm actually do any good. More important, they say, is the sufficient duration of uninterrupted sleep, which can be achieved by going to bed earlier.
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