Relations of Emotional and Personal Features and Subjective Assessment of Sleep Disorders
Abstract
This article discusses the problem of the relationship between the subjective assessment of sleep disorders and emotional and personal characteristics. After all, such features as anxiety, obsessive thoughts and actions, irritability, etc. can act as predictors of sleep disorders, at the same time, long enough sleep disorders can affect the psychological features to changes during life. The study sample included 20 people, of whom 6 were diagnosed with chronic primary insomnia, and 14 had subjective complaints about sleep. It was revealed that disturbance and poor quality of sleeping correlated with emotional-personal characteristics such as emotional instability, neuroticism, irritability, depression.
Keywords: sleep disorders, insomnia, personal features, dysfunctional attitudes about sleep.