Introduction
According to the research conducted by Kroese et al. (2016), some mental and physical health consequences, such as concentration problems, memory problems, cardiovascular diseases and obesity, can be caused by insufficient amount of sleep over extended period of time. Since August, 2014, I have been getting an insufficient amount of sleep. Because I am occupying multiple time-consuming roles, for example, being a stay-at-home parent, a wife, and a college student, and having a part-time position on campus, I am juggling a lot of responsibilities, and therefore, I am seriously undermining my free time including the time, when I am supposed to rest and sleep. As Moro-Egido (2012) notes in her research on changes in mother’s active …show more content…
In my case, the Precontemplation stage for this specific task began even before I took this class. In particular, to this stage I attribute the conversations I had with other parents about various approaches regarding managing child sleeping routines, and about parents’ own time-management. Also, defining my child’s nighttime sleeping pattern was part of the Precontemplation stage. Next, in the Contemplation stage I observed my own sleep patterns and habituality, and decided what realistically could be changed. The main problem I identified was a habit of doing homework—inefficiently—after my son goes to sleep and at least until midnight. Additionally, not being able to wake up naturally, and instead being awaken by a jolly toddler (usually no later than 7am), who also had woken up once or twice during the night, contributed to the problem of insufficient sleep. Such routine, in the best case, would result in a total of about 6h of sleep for me. Furthermore, I officially ventured into the Preparations stage, when I wrote the Individual Health Plan proposal and set up a goal to increase my total sleep time to 8h. The initial proposal consisted of setting up the “cut-off time” to be 11pm, which, in other words, would be the latest time when I can go to sleep, and then shifting the cut-off time weekly by 10 min earlier. Ideally, my hope was …show more content…
As stated above, for this assignment I set a goal to increase the amount of sleep to 8h a day. Next, the outcome expectancy had primarily a physical nature, that is, to prevent tiredness I experienced from not having sufficient sleep, as well as self-evaluative outcome, or feeling good that I reached the goal. Furthermore, I would rate my self-efficacy, or, as defined by Abraham et al. (2016), “a belief that a behaviour is or is not within an individual’s control and is usually assessed as the degree of confidence the individual has that they could still perform the behaviour in the face of various obstacles” (151), as high. Therefore, according to the Social Cognitive Theory, the predicted results were as follow: there is a high likelihood in success of reaching my goal of getting 8h of sleep per day, because I had a clear goal, clear understanding about the positive outcomes I could receive, and I possess a high degree of confidence (high
According to the research conducted by Kroese et al. (2016), some mental and physical health consequences, such as concentration problems, memory problems, cardiovascular diseases and obesity, can be caused by insufficient amount of sleep over extended period of time. Since August, 2014, I have been getting an insufficient amount of sleep. Because I am occupying multiple time-consuming roles, for example, being a stay-at-home parent, a wife, and a college student, and having a part-time position on campus, I am juggling a lot of responsibilities, and therefore, I am seriously undermining my free time including the time, when I am supposed to rest and sleep. As Moro-Egido (2012) notes in her research on changes in mother’s active …show more content…
In my case, the Precontemplation stage for this specific task began even before I took this class. In particular, to this stage I attribute the conversations I had with other parents about various approaches regarding managing child sleeping routines, and about parents’ own time-management. Also, defining my child’s nighttime sleeping pattern was part of the Precontemplation stage. Next, in the Contemplation stage I observed my own sleep patterns and habituality, and decided what realistically could be changed. The main problem I identified was a habit of doing homework—inefficiently—after my son goes to sleep and at least until midnight. Additionally, not being able to wake up naturally, and instead being awaken by a jolly toddler (usually no later than 7am), who also had woken up once or twice during the night, contributed to the problem of insufficient sleep. Such routine, in the best case, would result in a total of about 6h of sleep for me. Furthermore, I officially ventured into the Preparations stage, when I wrote the Individual Health Plan proposal and set up a goal to increase my total sleep time to 8h. The initial proposal consisted of setting up the “cut-off time” to be 11pm, which, in other words, would be the latest time when I can go to sleep, and then shifting the cut-off time weekly by 10 min earlier. Ideally, my hope was …show more content…
As stated above, for this assignment I set a goal to increase the amount of sleep to 8h a day. Next, the outcome expectancy had primarily a physical nature, that is, to prevent tiredness I experienced from not having sufficient sleep, as well as self-evaluative outcome, or feeling good that I reached the goal. Furthermore, I would rate my self-efficacy, or, as defined by Abraham et al. (2016), “a belief that a behaviour is or is not within an individual’s control and is usually assessed as the degree of confidence the individual has that they could still perform the behaviour in the face of various obstacles” (151), as high. Therefore, according to the Social Cognitive Theory, the predicted results were as follow: there is a high likelihood in success of reaching my goal of getting 8h of sleep per day, because I had a clear goal, clear understanding about the positive outcomes I could receive, and I possess a high degree of confidence (high