Experimental objective:
If the “compensation for staying up late” time is shifted from late at night to daytime, will the same length of “controllable time” still bring a sense of satisfaction and control?
The experiment adopted the approach of “fixed sleep + daytime self-time” to test whether young people could still achieve psychological compensation effects without staying up late.
Questions to be explored:
1.Does the “compensatory satisfaction” of Revenge Bedtime Procrastination necessarily rely on the night?
2. If an equal “autonomy ” is provided during the day, can it reduce the willingness to stay up late voluntarily?
3. Behind late-night behavior, is it emotional compensation or cultural habit?
4. After the intervention, did the group report a decrease in the frequency of staying up late and intrinsic motivation?
Preliminary Intervention plan
Participants:
College students(20-24) , who have the behaviour of Revenge Bedtime Procrastination.
Reasons for choosing the experimental subjects：My stakeholders are divided into two groups: students aged 20 to 24 and young workers aged 24 to 28. This intervention will focus on the student group because this experiment needs to be conducted during the day, when the student group has more time for the test. Workers usually have only a two-hour lunch break, making it difficult for them to conduct intervention experiments.
Phase 1: Regular Recording
Objective: To record the original behaviors and emotional motivations
Bedtime Record
-Which part of today feels the most “yours”?
-Do you think you can control your time today?
– What time do you go to bed? What were you doing at that time? Feeling: Satisfaction/Anxiety/freedom /?
Morning Record
– What time do you get up?
-How did you feel when you woke up?
-Are you deliberately delaying your bedtime? Why?
Phase 2: Sleep Reconstruction Experiment
-Mandatory sleep from 24:00 to 03:00 at night
-Arrange fixed “stolen time periods” during the day (for example, from 14:00 to 17:00, work/study is prohibited).
-Participants can “watch short videos/watch dramas/daydream” and so on – do what you usually do when you stay up late
Data collection
1. Sleep/Mood Diary (1-10) score
Interview – Follow-up record content:
-After this “controllable period of time”, have you gained a sense of satisfaction?
-Do you have the urge to keep delaying going to bed at night?
-Do you think this way of “stealing time during the day” is more free or less boring than at night?
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