Angry night birds: Emotionality, activity and sociability temperament in adolescent chronotypes

ABSTRACT

There is growing interest in personality profiles associated with morningness–eveningness to foster an understanding of the behaviors and mental states of chronotypes. This study aimed to analyze the domains of emotionality, activity and sociability (EAS) temperament in relation to morningness–eveningness in adolescents. A sample of 539 school pupils aged 13–19 years completed the EAS Temperament Survey, the Composite Scale of Morningness and the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire. Amongst the five EAS domains (emotionality-distress, emotionality-fearfulness, emotionality-anger, activity and sociability), greater emotionality-anger was related to eveningness, while greater emotionality-distress was related to lower social jet lag. The results suggest that evening chronotypes can be temperamentally inclined to anger. The possible mechanisms of this association are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Chronotype
• eveningness
• morningness
• social jet lag
• personality
• temperament
• emotionality
• anxiety
• sociability
• adolescents

Disclosure Statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego [IP2015026774].