Study highlights bad sleepers
Updated on 04 August 2008
Divorced middle-aged men are becomingly increasingly bad-tempered, emotional and are under-performing at work because of a lack of sleep, a study has revealed.
The Sleep Report, carried out by market research organisation GFK NOP, found that divorced male lawyers, aged 55, who live in London are the UK's worst sleepers and as a result are suffering problems. It found that divorced London male lawyers in their 50s only get an average of four hours sleep each night, which seriously affects their day-to-day lives.
The UK-wide research asked 2,000 adults to reveal what disturbs their sleep at night. The study also pinpointed single female bar workers, aged 20, from the East Midlands as Britain's best sleepers with around 10 hours sleep a night.
Meanwhile, the Welsh way of life seems to come with the least economic and personal worries.
Personal finances keep only 13% of people in Wales awake at night compared with the 27% of Londoners and 26% in the north-west of England who say these worries disturb their sleep.
Just over half of people living in East Anglia (51%) said that they were most sleepless because of work issues, while 40% of those in the East Midlands and 40% of people in the north of England had sleepless nights because of personal health concerns.
In Northern Ireland, people's social life caused problems, with 34% of those questioned likely to lose sleep as a result. Only 15% blamed the credit crunch on a sleepless night.
The majority of those polled nationwide said a lack of sleep had an adverse effect on their everyday life. A massive 93% of people in East Anglia said that they are bad-tempered without a good night's sleep and 31% of people in the East Midlands suffer from a lack of sex drive after having lost some shut-eye.
And it is not just economic and personal problems that bother us at night, they said. Just under half of people in East Anglia (43%), 40% of those in the south-west of England and 40% of those in Scotland said that not being able to get comfortable affected their sleeping patterns.
Behaviour psychologist Donna Dawson said: "It is interesting to note that we all think that other people sleep better than we do - the truth is that we are all experiencing problems sleeping at night, whether it is a problem on our mind or a problem with the bed we are lying on!"
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