TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Circadian type and mood seasonality in adolescents JO - Psychiatry and the Clinical Neurosciences A1 - Tonetti, Lorenzo A1 - Fabbri, Marco A1 - Martoni, Monica A1 - Natale, Vincenzo SP - 157 EP - 159 VL - 66 IS - 2 N2 - The aim of the present study was to investigate, for the first time, the relationship between circadian preference and mood seasonality in adolescents. To this end, 1539 participants (881 female; 658 male) completed the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents and the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents to determine circadian preference and mood seasonality, respectively. Evening types achieved significantly higher mood seasonality scores than intermediate and morning types, as intermediates did than morning types. Agreeing with previous studies on young adults and adults, the present data indicate a significant relationship between eveningness and higher mood seasonality in adolescents.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 1323-1316 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2011.02303.x ID - ref1 ER -