Influence of chronotype, season, and sex of subject on sleep behavior of young adults

Chronobiology International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 875-888

  Lehnkering, Hanna ^a   Siegmund, Renate ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronotype; Season; Sex; Sleep behavior; Wrist actigraphy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SPRING; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SLEEP;

EID: 36249027680     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07420520701648259     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Achari KV, Pati AK. (2007). Morningness-eveningness preference in Indian school students as function of gender, age and habitat. Biol. Rhythm Res. 38:1-8.
2. Adan A, Natale V. (2002). Gender differences in morningness-eveningness preference. Chronobiol. Int. 19:709-720.
3. Ancoli-Israel S, Cole R, Alessi C, Chambers M, Moorcroft W, Pollak CP. (2003). The role of actigraphy in the study of sleep and circadian rhythms. Sleep 26:342-392.
4. Aschoff J. (1969). Phasenlage der tagesperiodik in abhängigkeit von jahreszeit und breitengrad. Oecologia (Berl.) 3:125-165.
5. Baehr EK, Revelle W, Eastman CI. (2000). Individual differences in the phase and amplitude of the human circadian temperature rhythm with an emphasis on morningness-eveningness. J. Sleep Res. 9:117-127.
6. Bailey SL, Heitkemper MM. (2001). Circadian rhythmicity of cortisol and body temperature: morningness-eveningness effects. Chronobiol. Int. 18:249-261.
7. Duffy JF, Rimmer DW, Czeisler CA. (2001). Association of intrinsic circadian period with morningness-eveningness, usual wake time, and circadian phase. Behav. Neurosci. 115:895-899.
8. Ferrara M, De Gennaro L. (2001). How much sleep do we need? Sleep Med. Rev. 5:155-179.
9. Gaina A, Sekine M, Kanayama H, Takashi Y, Hu L, Sengoku K, Kagamimori S. (2006). Morning-evening preference: sleep pattern spectrum and lifestyle habits among Japanese junior high school pupils. Chronobiol. Int. 23:606-621.
10. Goel N, Kim H, Lao RP. (2005). Gender differences in polysomnographic sleep in young healthy sleepers. Chronobiol. Int. 22:905-915.
11. Jean-Louis G, Kripke DF, Ancoli-Israel S, Klauber MR, Sepulveda RS. (2000). Biol. Psychiatry. 47: 921-927.
12. Klei L, Reitz P, Miller M, Wood J, Maendel S, Gross D, Waldner T, Eaton J, Monk TH, Nimgaonkar VL. (2005). Heritability of morningness-eveningness and self-report sleep measures in a family-based sample of 521 Hutterites. Chronobiol. Int. 22:1041-1054.
13. Kohsaka M, Fukuda N, Homna K, Homna S, Morita N. (1992). Seasonality in human sleep. Experientia 48:231-233.
14. Kushida CA, Chang A, Gadkary C, Guilleminault C, Carrillo O, Dement WC. (2001). Comparison of actigraphic, polysomnographic, and subjective assessment of sleep parameters in sleepdisordered patients. Sleep Med. 2:389-396.
15. Lehnkering H, Strauss A, Wegner B, Siegmund R. (2006). Actigraphic investigations on the activity-rest behavior of right- and left-handed students. Chronobiol. Int. 23:593-605.
16. Lima PF, Medeiros ALD, Araujo JF. (2002). Sleep-wake pattern of medical students: early versus late class starting time. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res. 35:1373-1377.
17. Marsh HD. (1906). The diurnal course of efficiency. Columbia Univ. Contrib. Philos. Psychol. 14:1.
18. Medeiros ALD, Mendes DBF, Lima PF, Araujo JF. (2001). The relationship between sleep-wake cycle and academic performance in medical students. Biol. Rhythm Res. 32:263-270.
19. Monk TH, Buysse DJ, Rose LR, Hall JA, Kupfer DJ. (2000). The sleep of healthy people - a diary study. Chronobiol. Int. 17:49-60.
20. Mongrain V, Carrier J, Dumont M. (2005). Chronotype and sex effects on sleep architecture and quantitative sleep EEG in healthy young adults. Sleep 28:819-827.
21. Mongrain V, Carrier J, Dumont M. (2006). Difference in sleep regulation between morning and evening circadian types as indexed by antero-posterior analyses of the sleep EEG. Eur. J. Neurosci. 23:497-504.
22. Oginska H, Pokorski J. (2006). Fatigue and mood correlates of sleep length and three age-social groups: School children, students, and employees. Chronobiol. Int. 23:1317-1328.
23. Ohayon MM, Carskadon MA, Guilleminault C, Vitiello MV. (2004). Meta-analysis of quantitative sleep parameters from child to old age in healthy individuals: Developing normative sleep values across the human lifespan. Sleep 27:1255-1273.
24. Östberg O. (1976). Zur typologie der circadianen phasenlage. In Hildebrandt G ed./trans Biologische Rhythmen und Arbeit. Wien, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 117-137.
25. Paine SJ, Gander PH, Travier N. (2006). The epidemiology of morningness/eveningness: Influence of age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors in adults (30-49 years). J. Biol. Rhythms 21: 68-76.
26. Park YM, Matsumoto K, Seo YJ, Shinkoda H, Park KP. (1998). Sleep in relation to age, sex, and chronotype in Japanese workers. Percept. Mot. Skills. 87:199-215.
27. Park YM, Matsumoto K, Shinkoda H, Nagashima H, Kang MJ, Seo YJ. (2001). Age and gender difference in habitual sleep-wake rhythm. Psychiatry 55:201-202.
28. Perreau-Lenz S, Pévet P, Buijs RM, Kalsbeek A. (2004). The biological clock: The bodyguard of temporal homeostasis. Chronobiol. Int. 21:1-25.
29. Reyner LA, Horne JA. (1995). Gender- and age-related differences in sleep. Sleep 18:127-134.
30. Roenneberg T, Wirz-Justice A, Merrow M. (2003). Life between clocks - daily temporal patterns of human chronotypes. J. Biol. Rhythms 18:80-90.
31. Touitou Y, Smolensky MH, Portaluppi F. (2006). Ethics, standards and procedures of animal and human chronobiology research. Chronobiol. Int. 23:1083-1096.
32. Tsai L.-L, Li S.-P. (2004). Sleep patterns in college students' gender and grade differences. J. Psychosom. Res. 56:231-237.
33. Valdez P, Ramirez C, Garcia A. (2003). Adjustment of the sleep-wake cycle to small (1-2 h) changes in schedule. Biol. Rhythm Res. 34:145-155.
34. Wehr TA. (1991). The durations of human melatonin secretion and sleep respond to changes in day-length (photoperiod). J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 73:1276-1279.
35. Wehr TA, Moul DE, Barbato G, Giesen HA, Seidel JA, Barker C, Bender C. (1993). Conservation of photoperiod-responsive mechanisms in humans. Am. J. Physiol. 265:R846-R857.
36. Williams RL, Karacan I, Hursch CJ. (1974). The normal sleep in early adulthood. In Williams RL ed. Electroencephalography of Human Sleep: Clinical Applications. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 26-68.
37. Wirz-Justice A, Wever RA, Aschoff J. (1984). Seasonality in free-running circadian rhythms in man. Naturwissenschaften 71:316-319.
38. Wirz-Justice A, Kräuchi K, Wirz H. (1991). Season, gender and age: Interaction with sleep and nap timing and duration in an epidemiological survey in Switzerland, World Federation of Sleep Research Societies Congress, Cannes, September 21-25, 1991.
39. Zavada A, Gordijn MCM, Beersma DGM, Daan S, Roenneberg T. (2005). Comparison of the Munich chronotype questionnaire with the Horne-Östberg's morningness-eveningness score. Chronobiol. Int. 22:267-278.