Correlation of Between Sleep Quality, Perceived Stress Reactivity, Expressive Suppression and Finding Gender Difference in Emotion Regulation Strategy in Young Adults

The current study correlation between sleep quality, perceived stress reactivity and expressive suppression and gender difference in emotion regulation strategy in young adults was conducted on a sample of 202 participants selected through convenience sampling to see the relationship between sleep quality, perceived stress reactivity, expressive suppression strategy and the potential gender difference in the use of emotion regulation strategy. The findings indicate that poor sleep quality is associated with increased stress reactivity and use of expressive suppression strategy and there is a potential difference in genders in using expressive suppression technique while no such difference occurs in the use of cognitive reappraisal.