Volume 25, Issue 112, June 2021

Investigating the relationship between personality type and sleep quality in students living in dormitories of Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences: A study in southwestern Iran

Alireza Rafi¹, Pouriya Darabiyan², Mina Rezaei³, Manigeh Naderi^4♦

¹MSc Student of Nursing, Student Research Committee, School of Nursing& Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
²Student Research Committee, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
³MSc, Instructor, Department of critical Nursing, Nursing Care Research Center in Chronic Diseases, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
⁴MSc in Nursing, Instructor, Department of Nursing Management, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

^♦Corresponding author
MSc in Nursing, Instructor, Department of Nursing Management, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

ABSTRACT

Background: Sleep quality is a clinical structure and a complex phenomenon that is subjective to measurement. Most psychologists consider personality as the most important and fundamental subject of psychology and this issue is undoubtedly effective in lifestyle and human behavior. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between personality type and sleep quality in students was performed. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study that was conducted in 2020. The study population consisted of all students living in dormitories of Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences. The instruments used in this study were the Pittsburgh Questionnaire (PSQI) to measure and evaluate the quality and patterns of sleep and the Ratus A and B personality type questionnaire to determine the personality type. Also, SPSS 22 statistical software was used to analyze the data. Results: Of 109 participants, 53.2% were boys and 46.8% were girls. 98.2% were single and the rest were married. The correlation between personality type and sleep quality was negative but not statistically significant (P = 0.37).Conclusion: The results indicate that there is no significant relationship between sleep quality and personality types andit can be said that personality types are not effective on sleep.

Keywords: Personality Type, Sleep Quality, Students

Medical Science, 2021, 25(112), 1261-1268

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