Associations between Sleep Disturbances, Personality Traits and Self-Regulation in a Sample of Healthy Adults

Background: Scientific evidence and everyday experience show that sleep disturbances and self-regulation as a proxy of stress reactivity are linked. Particular personality traits such as neuroticism, internalizing and externalizing problems are also associated with sleep disturbances. Here, we combined self-regulation and personality traits and associated these variables with subjective sleep disturbances. Methods: A total of 846 adults (mean age: 33.7 years; 78.7% females) completed questionnaires covering sleep disturbances, self-regulation and personality traits. Results: Higher scores for sleep disturbances were associated with higher scores for externalization, internalization, and instability and with lower scores for stability (all trait variables) and with poorer self-regulation (state variable). The regression model showed that higher scores for externalization and internalization (traits), and lower scores for self-regulation (state) predicted higher scores for sleep disturbance. Next, self-regulation had both a direct effect on sleep disturbance, and an indirect effect via personality traits. Conclusions: Sleep disturbances were related to both state (i.e., self-regulation) and trait (e.g., internalization and instability) dimensions. The current data analysis leapfrogs the state-trait dichotomy discussion and reconciles the state-and-trait approach in the prediction of poor sleep, though self-regulation appeared to have both direct and indirect effects on sleep disturbances.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical medicine - 13(2024), 7 vom: 08. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zakiei, Ali [VerfasserIn]
Sadeghi-Bahmani, Dena [VerfasserIn]
Khazaie, Habibolah [VerfasserIn]
Lorestani, Zeinab [VerfasserIn]
Sadeghi, Mohammad [VerfasserIn]
Korani, Dariuosh [VerfasserIn]
Sahraei, Zeinab [VerfasserIn]
Komasi, Saeid [VerfasserIn]
Stanga, Zeno [VerfasserIn]
Brühl, Annette B [VerfasserIn]
Brand, Serge [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Personality traits
Self-regulation
Sleep disturbances

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Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/jcm13072143

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM371002184