The napping behaviour of Australian university students

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Lovato, Nicole ^a   Lack, Leon ^a   Wright, Helen ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; DAYTIME FUNCTIONING AND FEELING QUESTIONNAIRE; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NAPPING; NORMAL HUMAN; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; AUSTRALIA; FATIGUE; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912059041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113666     Document Type: Article

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