Validity of the morningness-eveningness questionnaire for adolescents (MEQ-A)

Sleep and Hypnosis

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 47-51

  Tonetti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actigraph; Adolescence; Circadian typology; Morningness eveningness questionnaire; Motor activity

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORNINGNESS EVENINGNESS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ADOLESCENTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 42049112976     PISSN: 13021192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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