Measures of circadian preference in childhood and adolescence: A review

Tonetti, Lorenzo; Adán, Ana; Milia, Lee Di; Randler, Christoph; Natale, Vincenzo

doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2015.01.006

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“…38). The scale has undergone some validation studies in adults and adolescents639. For example, the scores obtained on the scale are stable over a period of some months.…”

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confidence: 99%

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From Lark to Owl: developmental changes in morningness-eveningness from new-borns to early adulthood

Randler

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Kalb

2017

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Morningness-eveningness or chronotype changes significantly throughout the life span. This has been reported for the transition during adolescence in some studies, and to a lesser extent in early adulthood. Primary and pre-school children have been under investigation in fewer studies. This is the first comprehensive study covering the age range from very young children until early adulthood (0–30 years) based on the same measurement instrument. Here, we show that the turn towards eveningness starts at an early age in German children. Based on 26,214 cross-sectional data, we further show that at the end of adolescence, morningness-eveningness does not significantly change during early adulthood. Sex differences arise during puberty and remain until 30 years. The breaking point for the turn towards morningness is 15.7 years in girls and 17.2 boys. At the age of 0–1 years, there are about 70% morning types, and about 1% evening types, while at the age of 16 years, only 5% are morning types and 19% are evening types.

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“…38). The scale has undergone some validation studies in adults and adolescents639. For example, the scores obtained on the scale are stable over a period of some months.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8). Construct validity was obtained by actigraphy9, and the CSM scores correlated with about 0.5 with objectively measured bed and rise times639.…”

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confidence: 99%

From Lark to Owl: developmental changes in morningness-eveningness from new-borns to early adulthood

Randler

Faßl

Kalb

2017

Sci Rep

177

125

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“…Previous studies have reported good internal consistency, with Cronbach's alphas from 0.70 to 0.82 in American, Australian, Croatian, Dutch, Hong Kong-Chinese, Israeli, Italian, Spanish, Taiwanese and Turkish adolescent samples, good test-retest reliability (r = 0.80 to 0.83) and external validity using various behavioural outcomes in adolescents (Tonetti, Adan, Di Milia, Randler, & Natale, 2015). However, few studies have analysed the dimensionality of M-E measures among adolescents.…”

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Morningness–Eveningness Scale for Children (MESC): Spanish normative data and factorial invariance according to sex and age

Díaz‐Morales

2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…In addition, the present meta-analytic review differs from that of Preckel et al (2011) for four main features. Firstly, we adopted an approach which considers circadian preference as an unidimensional construct, from which it derives the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) (Horne & Ö stberg, 1976), the most frequently used questionnaire worldwide to measure circadian preference (Di Milia et al, 2013); furthermore a recent review (Tonetti et al, 2015a) has suggested the use of the adaptation for children and adolescents based on the MEQ (MEQ-CA) to assess circadian preference in these populations. This unidimensional conceptualization is used worldwide by a large number of researchers, and there is evidence that circadian preference is unidimensional when analyzing the underlying biological rhythms, such as peak melatonin secretion, cortisol awakening response and sleep behavior.…”

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Association between circadian preference and academic achievement: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Tonetti

Natale

Randler

2015

Chronobiology International

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The association between circadian preference and academic achievement has been assessed through a systematic review and meta-analysis. The literature searches retrieved 1647 studies; 31 studies, with a total sample size of 27 309 participants, fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. With reference to all these 31 studies, before running the meta-analysis, the sign of the correlation between the investigated variables was set in a way that a positive correlation showed that eveningness was related to worse academic performance. The meta-analysis yielded a small overall effect size of 0.143 (CI [0,129; 0,156]) under a fixed effects model (Z = 20.584, p < 0.001, I(2)( )= 72.656; Q = 109.715) and of 0.145 (CI [0.117; 0.172]) under a random effects model (Z = 10.077, p < 0.001). A random effects model with a grouping variable (participants) revealed 15 studies based on school pupils and 16 on university students. The random model showed a higher effect size in school pupils (0.166, CI from 0.127 to 0.206) compared to university students (0.121, CI from 0.080 to 0.163). Self-report measures of grades revealed a stronger effect size (0.171; CI: 0.137 to 0.206; N = 20) compared to objective measures (0.093; CI: 0.047 to 0.140; N = 19). Overall, the present results suggest that evening orientation is associated with a worse academic performance, both in school pupils and university students; for the first time, it has been shown that such relationship changes over time, being weaker in university students.

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Measures of circadian preference in childhood and adolescence: A review

Abstract: The present state of the art would suggest the use of the MEQ-CA to assess circadian preference in children and adolescents.

Cited by 59 publications

References 73 publications

From Lark to Owl: developmental changes in morningness-eveningness from new-borns to early adulthood

From Lark to Owl: developmental changes in morningness-eveningness from new-borns to early adulthood

Morningness–Eveningness Scale for Children (MESC): Spanish normative data and factorial invariance according to sex and age

Association between circadian preference and academic achievement: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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