Institute of Psychology, Department of Personality and Health Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary , Budapest, Hungary.
Institute of Psychology, Department of General Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary , Budapest, Hungary.
Chronobiol Int. 2020 Dec;37(12):1736-1747. doi: 10.1080/07420528.2020.1802289. Epub 2020 Aug 18.
Morningness-eveningness (chronotype) indicates the preferred time of intellectual and physical activity. This cross-sectional study had two main aims. The first aim was to explore associations among chronotype, quality of life, and relationship quality. The second aim of this study was to examine whether the similarities or discrepancies in chronotype between male and female members of the couples were linked to relationship quality. Both members of 143 couples (mean age = 39.44; SD = 10.11y) living together for at least 6 months completed measures of chronotype, marital stress, relationship satisfaction, dyadic coping, satisfaction with life, health-related quality of life, and quality of sleep. Variable-oriented (correlational) and person-oriented (cluster-analytic) analyses were conducted. Variable-oriented analyses showed that morningness was linked to better mental health, and fewer insomnia problems, but less frequent (self-perceived) stress communication for both genders. The discrepancy between the couple's chronotype scores was positively related to the women's sexual and general life satisfaction and more frequent (self-perceived) supportive dyadic coping by the partner. Moreover, ANOVA results showed that Evening-type (E-type) women had the highest mean score on sexual life satisfaction. According to cluster-analytic investigation, couples consisting of two morning-type members had the least frequent stress communication. On the other hand, these couples had better sleeping quality with less insomnia symptoms than couples with two E-type members. In summary, the present findings demonstrate that morningness holds both advantages and disadvantages for both general aspects of life and also the quality of relationships.
早型/晚型（作息类型）表示智力和体力活动的偏好时间。本横断面研究有两个主要目的。第一个目的是探讨作息类型、生活质量和关系质量之间的关联。本研究的第二个目的是检验夫妻双方作息类型的相似性或差异性是否与关系质量有关。共同生活至少 6 个月的 143 对夫妻（平均年龄=39.44；SD=10.11y）的双方均完成了作息类型、婚姻压力、关系满意度、夫妻应对方式、生活满意度、健康相关生活质量和睡眠质量的测量。进行了变量导向（相关）和个体导向（聚类分析）分析。变量导向分析表明，对于男性和女性，早型与更好的心理健康和更少的失眠问题有关，但更少的压力沟通（自我感知）。夫妻双方作息类型得分的差异与女性的性满意度和一般生活满意度呈正相关，并且伴侣更频繁地（自我感知）进行支持性的夫妻应对。此外，方差分析结果表明，晚型（E 型）女性的性满意度得分最高。根据聚类分析调查，由两个早型成员组成的夫妻的压力沟通频率最低。另一方面，这些夫妻的睡眠质量较好，失眠症状较少，而由两个 E 型成员组成的夫妻则不然。总之，本研究结果表明，早型在生活的各个方面和关系质量方面既有优势也有劣势。
