Relationships between Chronotypes and Temperament and Character Dimensions in Healthy Young Adults.
- Author:
Chun Il PARK
1
;
Jee In KANG
;
Kee NAMKOONG
;
Se Joo KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. kimsejoo@yuhs.ac
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Circadian rhythms;
Chronotype;
Temperaments;
Harm avoidance;
Temperament and Character Inventory
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
2014;21(3):93-98
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: Circadian rhythms have been known to have associations with psychiatric disorders and personality traits. The present study investigated the relationships between circadian typology and temperaments/characters in a non-clinical Korean population. METHODS: Two hundred six healthy Korean college students (male 109, female 97) participated in this study. The subjects completed the Composite Scale of Morningness for circadian typology and 140-item Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised-Short version (TCI-RS). RESULTS: Multivariate analyses of covariance showed a significant association between chronotypes and temperamental dimensions of the TCI-RS. Morning types were significantly associated with lower harm avoidance and higher persistence and self-directedness dimensions, compared to evening types and intermediate types. No interaction effects between sex and chronotypes were shown for temperamental dimensions. CONCLUSIONS: The present findings suggest that high persistence and self-directedness characters are related to morning types and high harm avoidance temperament is more related to evening types.
