Mood Affecting Teenage Athletes

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Most people are not aware that they are lacking recommended sleep. Interestingly, 48% of teenagers who spent 4 or more hours per week participating in sports reported sleeping less than 8 hours; similarly, 45% of this sample indicated that they had “a few nights per month or less of a ‘good night’s sleep’” (Sufrinko, Johnson, & Henry, 2016). Hirshkowitz et al. (2015), as cited by Suppiah, Low & Chia (2015), found out that teenage athletes do not meet the experts’ recommendations for sleep duration of healthy teenagers of between 8 and 10 hours of sleep.
Mood can be defined as a long-lasting affective state that is experienced without concurrent awareness of its origin (De Burgo & Gendolla, 2009). Mood may last anywhere from a few minutes to

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