Table 3.
Percentage of the Insomnia Group (IG) and the Normal Sleeper Group (NSG) Mentioning Each Category from the “Speak Freely” Procedure: Results for the On Waking and Daytime Variables
| Category | % |
Direction | Good night |
Poor night |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IG | NSG | χ2 (1) | IG | NSG | IG | NSG | ||
| Motivation to get up or sleep in the morning | 100 | 89 | 2.73 | Motivated to get up | 79 | 79 | 21 | 4 |
| Desired to sleep more | 21 | 22 | 83 | 71 | ||||
| Tiredness on waking and throughout the day | 96 | 96 | 0.01 | Not tired | 67 | 79 | 0 | 0 |
| Tired | 0 | 0 | 79 | 93 | ||||
| Anxiety, worry and mood on waking and in the day | 92 | 82 | 1.01 | Positive mood/no anxiety | 79 | 54 | 0 | 0 |
| Negative mood/anxiety | 0 | 0 | 83 | 68 | ||||
| Alertness, clear-headedness, concentration | 79 | 89 | 1.02 | Alert, clear headed | 58 | 64 | 0 | 0 |
| Not alert, groggy | 0 | 0 | 63 | 54 | ||||
| Coping behaviours (e.g., coffee, napping, alcohol) | 71 | 68 | 0.05 | No coffee, napping etc. | 33 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| Use of coffee, napping etc. | 0 | 0 | 54 | 50 | ||||
| Time of waking in the morning | 71 | 64 | 0.25 | Waking late in the morning | 33 | 32 | 13 | 11 |
| Waking early in the morning | 17 | 7 | 63 | 50 | ||||
| Performance level and efficiency | 71 | 50 | 2.33 | Performance level high | 38 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Performance level low | 0 | 0 | 63 | 39 | ||||
| Feeling rested, restored, refreshed, replenished | 67 | 64 | 0.03 | Feeling rested etc. | 67 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
| Not feeling rested etc | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 | ||||
| Body sensations on waking and during the day | 63 | 25 | 7.45** | Positive body sensations | 33 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Negative body sensations | 0 | 0 | 50 | 18 | ||||
| Feelings of energy/lethargy | 58 | 71 | 0.98 | Feeling energetic | 42 | 57 | 0 | 0 |
| Feeling lethargic | 0 | 0 | 29 | 39 | ||||
| Alarm/natural awakening | 46 | 68 | 2.57 | Wake naturally | 25 | 43 | 17 | 0 |
| Wake by alarm | 13 | 18 | 0 | 14 | ||||
| Ability to go back to sleep on final awakening | 38 | 18 | 2.53 | Can easily go back to sleep | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Can't go back to sleep | 4 | 0 | 38 | 18 | ||||
| Level of sociability | 33 | 32 | 0.01 | Feeling sociable | 33 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| Feeling asocial | 0 | 0 | 8 | 18 | ||||
| Ease or difficulty of staying awake | 29 | 32 | 0.05 | Easy to stay awake | 13 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Difficult to stay awake | 0 | 0 | 25 | 25 | ||||
| Nonspecific feeling “good” or “bad” | 25 | 39 | 1.20 | Feel ‘good’ | 13 | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Feel ‘bad’ | 0 | 0 | 17 | 21 | ||||
| Appearance on waking | 8 | 29 | 3.41 | Appearance ‘good’ | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Appearance ‘bad’ | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25 | ||||
| Level of light on waking | 8 | 7 | 0.03 | Light outside when wake | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 |
| Dark outside when wake | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Memory of sleep | 4 | 25 | 4.31* | No memory of sleep | 4 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Remember sleep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Physiological arousal in the day | 4 | 21 | 3.31 | Not physiologically aroused | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Physiologically aroused | 0 | 4 | 4 | 18 | ||||
| Coordination and balance | 4 | 0 | 1.19 | Coordinated, balanced | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not coordinated, balanced | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Expectation of sleep's impact on day | 0 | 4 | 0.87 | Expect positive impact | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Expect negative impact | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
*P < 0.01, ** P< 0.001.