Morning-Evening Type and Stress-Related Personality in Japanese College Students

Abstract

An earlier report by Mecacci and Rocchetti showed a significant, weak, and positive correlation between Evening type as measured by the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire and Type A personality as measured by the Jenkins Activity Survey and the Bortner Type A Scale in Italian college students. The present study of 503 Japanese college students yielded a significant and weakly negative correlation. The bases for the different results were discussed in a psychophysiological context.

Sleep and lifestyle habits in morning and evening types of human circadian rhythm

“…Accordingly, we have used questionnaires to investigate the length of sleep time, the changes in waking time, bedtime, sleep time, having sufficient sleep (including staying up all night), times of eating breakfast, dozing and taking an afternoon nap, and so on, as well as to examine the relationships between whether subjects morning-or evening-types (Takao et al 2007). These differences in sleep-wake rhythms and sleep and lifestyle habits, in waking experiences and variations in sleep time have been investigated using the Japanese-language version of Horne and Ostberg's Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) (Ostberg 1973a,b;Ishihara et al 1986Ishihara et al , 1990Adan and Almirall 1991) and the Tokyo Neurosciences General Laboratory Formula Examination of Life Habits (TMIN-LHI) (Miyashita 1994).…”

Association Among School‐related, Parental and Self‐related Problems and Morningness–Eveningness in Adolescents

“…Poor sleep quality on schooldays and corresponding weekend oversleep, practised by adolescent evening types, correlate with academic and emotional stress (Lund, Reider, Whiting, & Prichard, ). Evening types feel less comfortable in stressful situations (Buschkens, Graham, & Cottrell, ) and report more difficulties in coping with social demands (Mecacci & Rocchetti, ; Takao, Ishihara, & Mori, with diverging results). There was a negative correlation of morningness and anxiety in women but a positive or no correlation in men (Díaz‐Morales & Sánchez‐López, ; Muro, Gomà‐i‐Freixanet, & Adan, ), suggesting the relevance of gender‐related variables.…”