SynthesisDie Naturwissenschaften2016
Ontogeny of morningness-eveningness across the adult human lifespan.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Latitude affects Morningness-Eveningness: evidence for the environment hypothesis based on a systematic review.Scientific reports · 2017Pooled it
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- Circadian rhythmicity and reinforcement processing: a dataset of MRI, fMRI, and behavioral measurements.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Sleep disorders in multiple sclerosis: a case-control study using the São Paulo Epidemiologic sleep study (Episono) database.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2022Article
- The fall of vulnerability to sleep disturbances in evening chronotypes when working from home and its implications for depression.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Associations between circadian misalignment and telomere length in BD: an actigraphy study.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic on Fire: Evolved Propensities for Nocturnal Activities as a Liability Against Epidemiological Control.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Mismatch between perceived family and individual chronotype and their association with sleep-wake patterns.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The role of chronotype, circadian misalignment, and tiredness in the substance use behaviors of gay and bisexual men.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2019Article
- Three Reasons to Consider the Role of Tiredness in Sexual Risk-Taking Among Gay and Bisexual Men.Archives of sexual behavior · 2019Article
- From Lark to Owl: developmental changes in morningness-eveningness from new-borns to early adulthood.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sleep timing of humans can be classified alongside a continuum from early to late sleepers, with some people (larks) having an early activity, early bed, and rise times and others (owls) with a more nocturnally orientated activity. Only a few studies reported that morningness-eveningness changes significantly during the adult lifespan based on community samples. Here, I applied a different methodological approach to seek for evidence for the age-related changes in morningness-eveningness preferences by using a meta-data from all available studies. The new aspect of this cross-sectional approach is that only a few studies themselves address the age-related changes of the adult lifespan development, but that many studies are available that provide exactly the data needed. The studies came from 27 countries and included 36,939 participants. Age was highly significantly correlated with scores on the Composite Scale of Morningness (r = 0.70). This relationship seems linear, because a linear regression explained nearly the same amount of variance compared to other models such as logarithmic, quadratic, or cubic models. The standard deviation of age correlated with the standard deviation of CSM scores (r = 0.55), suggesting when there is much variance in age in a study; in turn, there is much variance in morningness. This meta-analytical approach shows that morningness-eveningness changes across the adult lifespan and that older age is related to higher morningness.
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