Associations of chronotype, Big Five, and emotional competences with perceived stress in university students

You, Min; Laborde, Sylvain; Dosseville, Fabrice; Salinas, Agnès; Allen, Mark S.

doi:10.1080/07420528.2020.1752705

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“…The results and effect sizes found in the present study are in keeping with existing literature on the chronotype-affect relationship (e.g. Bakotic et al 2017;Simor et al 2015;You et al 2020). The poorer affective outcomes of E-types in the present sample reflect the results of Tan et al (2020) and their sample of undergraduates where E-types scored lower on a measure of happiness than N-and M-types.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Analysis of the differences between free and constrained days could explore potential dose-response relationship in terms of rhythm misalignment. This would build on work by You et al (2020) that found that the amplitude of variation in energy and motivation across the course of the day was a much stronger correlate with stress than chronotype directly (r= .39 and .14, respectively). Again, a more detailed exploration of the potentially multifactorial nature of chronotype (Konttinen et al 2014;Preckel et al 2019;Putilov 2017;Putilov et al 2015Putilov et al , 2019 may generate more interesting and useful results for how to handle negative affective consequences of circadian rhythm misalignment.…”

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confidence: 89%

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Insomnia symptoms mediate the association between eveningness and suicidal ideation, defeat, entrapment, and psychological distress in students

Bradford

Biello

Russell

2021

Chronobiology International

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Chronotype describes a person's general preference for mornings, evenings, or neither. It is typically conceptualized as a continuous unidimensional spectrum from morningness to eveningness. Eveningness is associated with poorer outcomes across a myriad of physical and mental health outcomes. This preference for later sleep and wake times is associated with increased risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in both clinical and community samples. However, the mechanisms underlying the negative consequences of this preference for evenings are not fully understood. Previous research has found that sleep disturbances may act as a mediator of this relationship. The present study aimed to explore the associations between chronotype and affective outcomes in a sample of students. Additionally, it aimed to investigate the potential role of insomnia as a mediator within these relationships. Participants (n = 190) completed an anonymous self-report survey of validated measures online which assessed chronotype, insomnia symptoms, and a range of affective outcomes (defeat, entrapment, suicide risk, stress, and depressive and anxious symptomology). Eveningness was associated with more severe or frequent experiences of these outcomes, with participants that demonstrated a preference for eveningness more likely to report poorer affective functioning and increased psychological distress. Mediation analysis found the relationship between chronotype and these outcome measures was completely or partially mediated by insomnia symptom severity measured by the validated Sleep Condition Indicator insomnia scale. Taken together, these findings add further evidence for the negative consequences of increased eveningness. Additionally, our results show that chronotype and sleep disturbances should be considered when assessing mental well-being. Implementing appropriate sleep-related behavior change or schedule alterations can offer a tool for mitigation or prevention of psychological distress in students that report a preference for later sleep and wake times.

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 89%

Insomnia symptoms mediate the association between eveningness and suicidal ideation, defeat, entrapment, and psychological distress in students

Bradford

Biello

Russell

2021

Chronobiology International

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“…Analysis of the differences between free and constrained days could explore potential dose-response relationship in term of rhythm misalignment. This is would build on work by You et al (2020) found that the amplitude of variation in energy and motivation across the course of the day was a much stronger correlate with stress than chronotype directly (r = .39 and .14, respectively). Again, a more detailed exploration of the potentially multifactorial nature of chronotype (Konttinen et al, 2014;Preckel et al, 2019;Putilov, 2017;Putilov, Donskaya, & Verevkin, 2015;Putilov, Marcoen, Neu, Pattyn, & Mairesse, 2019) may generate more interesting and useful results for how to handle negative affective consequences of circadian rhythm misalignment.…”

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confidence: 76%

Insomnia Mediates the Association between Eveningness and Suicidal Ideation, Defeat, Entrapment, and Psychological Distress in Young Adults

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Biello²,

Russell³

2020

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Chronotype describes a person's general preference for mornings, evenings or neither. It is typically conceptualized as a continuous unidimensional spectrum from morningness to eveningness. Eveningness is associated with poorer outcomes across a myriad of physical and mental health outcomes. This preference for later sleep and wake times is associated with increased risk of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation and behaviors in both clinical and community samples. However, the mechanisms underlying the negative consequences of this preference for evenings is not fully understood. Previous research has found that sleep disturbances may act as a mediator of this relationship. The present study aimed to explore the associations between chronotype and affective outcomes in a community sample of young adults. Additionally, it aimed to investigate the potential role of insomnia as a mediator within these relationships. Participants (n = 260) completed an anonymous self-report survey of validated measures online which assessed chronotype, insomnia symptoms, and a range of affective outcomes (defeat, entrapment, stress, suicide risk, and depressive and anxious symptomology). Eveningness was associated with more severe or frequent experiences of these outcomes, with young adults demonstrating a preference for eveningness more likely to report poorer affective functioning and increased psychological distress. Mediation analysis found the relationship between chronotype and these outcome measures were partially mediated by sleep disturbances as measured by the well-validated Sleep Condition Indicator insomnia scale. Taken together, these findings add further evidence for the negative consequences of increased eveningness. Additionally, our results show that chronotype and sleep disturbances should be considered when assessing mental well-being. Implementing appropriate sleep-related behavior change or schedule alterations can offer a tool for mitigation or prevention psychological distress in young adults who report a preference for later sleep and wake times.

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“…However, a research gap exists regarding the potential influence of SPB on subjective psychological states related to emotion regulation in athletes. Hence, addressing subjective psychological states such as perceived stress intensity, emotional arousal, and emotional valence is of high relevance for athletes, given their influence in sport [ 1 , 11 , 63 , 64 ] as well as in other life domains, such as the academic [ 65 ] or the professional [ 66 ] domains. The subjective effects of SPB have received little attention so far [ 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Emotional Intelligence Training: Influence of a Brief Slow-Paced Breathing Exercise on Psychophysiological Variables Linked to Emotion Regulation

You

Laborde

Zammit

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Designing emotional intelligence training programs requires first testing the effectiveness of techniques targeting its main dimensions. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a brief slow-paced breathing (SPB) exercise on psychophysiological variables linked to emotion regulation, namely cardiac vagal activity (CVA), as well as perceived stress intensity, emotional arousal, and emotional valence. A total of 61 participants completed a 5-min SPB exercise and a control condition of a 5-min rest measurement. CVA was indexed with the root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD). Participants were also asked to rate their perceived stress intensity, emotional arousal, and emotional valence. Results showed that CVA was higher during SPB in comparison to the control condition. Contrary to our hypothesis, perceived stress intensity and emotional arousal increased after SPB, and perceived emotional valence was less positive after SPB. This could be explained by experiencing dyspnea (i.e., breathing discomfort), and the need to get acclimatized to SPB. Consequently, we may conclude that although physiological benefits of SPB on CVA are immediate, training may be required in order to perceive psychological benefits.

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Associations of chronotype, Big Five, and emotional competences with perceived stress in university students

Cited by 24 publications

References 69 publications

Insomnia symptoms mediate the association between eveningness and suicidal ideation, defeat, entrapment, and psychological distress in students

Insomnia symptoms mediate the association between eveningness and suicidal ideation, defeat, entrapment, and psychological distress in students

Insomnia Mediates the Association between Eveningness and Suicidal Ideation, Defeat, Entrapment, and Psychological Distress in Young Adults

Emotional Intelligence Training: Influence of a Brief Slow-Paced Breathing Exercise on Psychophysiological Variables Linked to Emotion Regulation

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