Abstract
Objective: Despite a long history of interest in personality as well as in the mechanisms that regulate sleep, the relationship between personality and sleep is not yet well understood. In particular, it remains unknown how personality affects sleep.
Design: The present cross-sectional study, based on a sample of 1291 participants (M Age = 31.16 year, SD = 12.77), investigates the impact of personality styles, assessed by the Personality Adjectives Checklist (PACL; Strack, 1987), on subjective sleep quality, as well as the possible mediation of this relationship by dispositional emotion regulation styles.
Results: We found that the dispositional use of suppression was a quite consistent predictor of poor subjective sleep quality for individuals scoring higher on Confident, Cooperative, or Introversive personality traits, but lower on Respectful personality traits. Although a positive relationship between reappraisal and subjective sleep quality was found, there was only little evidence for a relationship between the assessed personality styles and the use of cognitive reappraisal.
Conclusion: The present results indicate that in the evaluation of subjective sleep, the impact of personality and emotion regulation processes, such as emotion suppression, should be taken into account.
Design: The present cross-sectional study, based on a sample of 1291 participants (M Age = 31.16 year, SD = 12.77), investigates the impact of personality styles, assessed by the Personality Adjectives Checklist (PACL; Strack, 1987), on subjective sleep quality, as well as the possible mediation of this relationship by dispositional emotion regulation styles.
Results: We found that the dispositional use of suppression was a quite consistent predictor of poor subjective sleep quality for individuals scoring higher on Confident, Cooperative, or Introversive personality traits, but lower on Respectful personality traits. Although a positive relationship between reappraisal and subjective sleep quality was found, there was only little evidence for a relationship between the assessed personality styles and the use of cognitive reappraisal.
Conclusion: The present results indicate that in the evaluation of subjective sleep, the impact of personality and emotion regulation processes, such as emotion suppression, should be taken into account.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 18 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Psychology & Health |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 18 Apr 2016 |