Personality Traits and the Subjective and Objective Experience of Sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is growing evidence that five-factor model personality traits are associated with self-reported sleep. We test whether these associations extend to objective sleep measures in older adulthood and whether measures of objective sleep mediate the relation between personality and subjective sleep.

Methods

A random subsample of participants in the National Social Life and Aging Project (NSHAP) wore an accelerometer for up to three nights and had information on FFM personality traits (N = 620). Participants also reported on their feelings of being rested.

Results

Higher neuroticism and lower extraversion and conscientiousness were associated with more frequent wake after sleep onset, greater fragmentation, and feeling less rested. Concurrent body mass index

SUBMITTER: Sutin AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239706 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature