Sex differences in the reactions to sleeping in pairs versus sleeping alone in humans

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-276

  Dittami, John ^a   Keckeis, Marietta ^a   Machatschke, Ivo ^a   Katina, Stanislav ^a,c   Zeitlhofer, Josef ^b   Kloesch, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Actigraphy; Sex differences; Sexual contact and sleep efficiency; Sleep environment; Sleeping in pairs

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL RECORD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOCIAL ASPECT; TIME; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 34648816402     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2007.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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