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Locus of Control in Short and Long Sleepers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Dr Anand Kumar  and
A. K. Vaidya
Dr Anand Kumar*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Kashi Vidyapith University, Varanasi 221002, India
A. K. Vaidya
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Kashi Vidyapith University
*
∗ Correspondence
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Behavioural scientists are currently attempting to correlate individuals' usual duration of sleep with personality traits as well as with personality profiles. Studies using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Cornell Medical Index have suggested that differences between “short sleepers” and “long sleepers” show up in such traits as self-control, anxiety, extroversion, aggression and ambition (Hartmann et al, 1972; Spinweber & Hartmann, 1976), although Webb & Friel (1970, 1971) found no such differences. Glaubmann & Orbach (1977) observed short sleepers to be efficient, energetic, ambitious, self-content and socially well adjusted.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 6 , June 1986 , pp. 739 - 740
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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