Abstract
University students have to face various stressors and hurdles during their academic career which
significantly affect their performance. Sleep problems are one of those problems that every student faces.
For this purpose the current study was designed to explore sleep problems in university students. The
participants aged 18 to 25 were selected from five different universities of Lahore. Pre Sleep Arousal Scale
(Nicassio, Mendlowitz, Fussell & Petras, 1985) was translated into Urdu and administered on 600 university
students (Male =248, Female = 352) to establish psychometric properties of the scale. Factor analysis
revealed two factors including somatic arousal and cognitive arousal. Cronbach Alpha was .87 and retest
reliability was found to be .89 which indicated that the Pre Sleep Arousal Scale is highly significant for usage
in future. Further results were discussed in the cultural context.
