EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AND SLEEP QUALITY AMONG TEACHERS OF BALOCHISTAN UNIVERSITY QUETTA

Abstract

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological distress and sleep quality among university teachers and whether there are any gender based contrast in the levels of psychological distress and sleep quality. Convenient sampling was utilized to pick the sample of 100 teachers (49 males and 51 females) from the University of Balochistan, Quetta. The degree of psychological distress and sleep quality were evaluated using Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (Kessler et al., 2003) and Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index ((Buysse et al., 1989), respectively. For statistical analysis SPSS 23was utilized to analyze Pearson product-moment correlation and independent sample t-test. The results indicated moderate positive correlation (r = .418**, p< .01) between psychological distress and sleep quality among university teachers. Furthermore, independent sample t-test showed no statistically significant differences in the levels of psychological distress and sleep quality among male and female teachers.