KMID : 0389520130200020082
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Sleep Medicine.Psychophysiology 2013 Volume.20 No. 2 p.82 ~ p.87
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Circadian Preference and Defense in Medical Students : Greater Consumption and Lesser Sublimation Predicting Eveningness
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Lee So-Jin
Park Chul-Soo Kim Bong-Jo Lee Cheol-Soon Cha Bo-Seok Kang Hyo-Seung
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Abstract
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Objectives: Previous studies have reported an association between circadian preference and personality. Defense mechanism is unconscious ego process which deals with an individual¡¯s anxiety and is closely associated with one¡¯s personality. Our aim is to investigate the association between defense mechanism and circadian preference in medical students.
Methods: One hundred forty eight medical students (70 males, 78 females), aged 22 to 30, answered the Beck Depression Inventory-II, Morningness-eveningness Questionnaire, and Korean version of Defense Style Questinnaire.
Results: Consumption (beta=-0.262, p=0.001) and being a male (beta=0.175, p=0.031) were significant positive predictors of eveningness, while sublimation (beta=0.185, p=0.023) was a significant negative predictor of eveningness.
Conclusion: Our study showed a relationship between specific defense mechanisms (i.e., consumption and sublimation) and eveningness in medical students, but it did not address whether the relationship is a causal one.
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KEYWORD
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Eveningness, Consumption, Sublimation, Medical students
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