Journal
CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 889-903Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07420520701648317
Keywords
sleep; personality; extraversion; neuroticism; mania
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- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [UL1RR024153] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R25MH054318] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG013396, P01AG020677] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR024153] Funding Source: Medline
- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG13396, P01 AG020677] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R-25 MH54318] Funding Source: Medline
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A mail-in questionnaire study and two confirmatory archival analyses are described. Variables related to personality and measures of sleep timing, sleep quality, and sleep duration were initially assessed by self-report in a sample of 54 working adults (31.5% male, 23-48 yrs). Extraversion and neuroticism were measured by the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), and the level of sub-clinical manic-type symptoms by the Attitude to Life Questionnaire (ATLQ). The quality of sleep was measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and by questions relating to habitual sleep latency and minutes awake after sleep onset from the Sleep Timing Questionnaire (STQ). The duration and timing of sleep was assessed using the STQ separately for work-week nights (Sunday-Thursday) and for weekend nights (Friday and Saturday). Morningness-evcningness was assessed using the Composite Scale of Morningness (CSM). Two confirmatory analyses using separate archival samples (Study A: n = 201, 55.7% male, 2057 yrs; Study 13: n = 10 1, 47.5% male, 18- 59 yrs) were then used to confirm specific correlations of interest. In both initial and confirmatory studies, increased sub-clinical manic-type symptoms were found to be significantly associated with later bedtimes and wake-times during the work-week and lower (more evening-type) CSM scores, and higher neuroticism was associated with poorer sleep as indicated by higher PSQI scores. In contrast, no significant correlations emerged between any of the personality variables and any of the sleep duration variables. Personality appears to affect certain aspects of the timing and subjective quality of sleep, but not necessarily its duration.
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