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. 2009 Aug 1;32(8):1027–1037. doi: 10.1093/sleep/32.8.1027

Table 2.

Baseline Evaluation of Sleep, Psychological and Health Variables for Good Sleepers and Insomnia Symptoms and Syndrome Incident Cases

Baseline Evaluation Good Sleepers (n = 275) Incident Cases
Insomnia Symptoms (n = 130) Insomnia Syndrome (n = 32)
Sleep Variables % (n) % (n) % (n) χ2 P P1
    Previous episode of insomnia (yes) 12.36a (34) 20.77a (27) 53.13b (17) 33.56 0.00 0.00
    Familial history of insomnia (yes) 27.64a (76) 33.85a (44) 59.38b (19) 13.67 0.00 0.00
M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) F P
    Insomnia Severity Index 3.04a (2.67) 4.37b (3.26) 5.72c (4.31) 17.14 0.00
    Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index 3.20a (1.77) 3.92b (1.75) 4.50b (1.97) 12.57 0.00
Psychological Variables2 M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) F P rp
    Beck Depression Inventory II 5.31a (0.32) 5.73a (0.46) 8.45b (0.94) 4.97 0.01 0.15
    State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory –Trait 36.60a (0.46) 37.25a (0.67) 40.40b (1.36) 3.48 0.03 0.13
    Arousal Predisposition Scale 29.23a (0.38) 30.13a (0.55) 32.88b (1.12) 4.91 0.01 0.15
    Perceived Stress Scale 21.13 (0.37) 21.62 (0.54) 23.39 (1.09) 1.92 0.15 0.10
    Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations
        Task-Oriented Coping 55.46 (0.59) 56.10 (0.85) 56.51 (1.73) 0.29 0.75 0.03
        Emotion-Oriented Coping 36.96 (0.61) 37.97 (0.89) 40.43 (1.80) 1.78 0.17 0.09
        Avoidance-Oriented Coping 45.23 (0.68) 44.20 (0.98) 44.16 (1.99) 0.42 0.66 −0.05
    NEO Five-Factor Inventory
        Neuroticism 15.05 (0.44) 15.71 (0.63) 17.77 (1.28) 2.07 0.13 0.10
        Extraversion 29.91a (0.38) 28.70 (0.55)a,b 27.41b (1.11) 3.16 0.04 −0.12
        Openness 25.96 (0.36) 27.11 (0.52) 27.29 (1.05) 1.98 0.14 0.10
        Agreeableness 34.90 (0.31) 34.22 (0.44) 33.70 (0.90) 1.27 0.28 −0.08
        Conscientiousness 37.10 (0.35) 36.70 (0.50) 36.37 (1.02) 0.36 0.70 −0.05
Health Variables2
    SF-12v2 Health Survey
        General Health 76.11a (1.00) 76.15a (1.45) 66.87b (3.01) 4.40 0.01 −0.14
        Bodily Pain 89.14a (1.13) 88.36a (1.64) 76.98b (3.30) 5.94 0.00 −0.16
        Mental Health 74.19a (0.78) 73.30a (1.13) 66.61b (2.30) 4.78 0.01 −0.15
    Body Mass Index 25.09 (0.31) 25.85 (0.44) 25.39 (0.90) 0.99 0.37 0.07
    Alcohol Consumption (glasses/week) 3.34 (0.29) 3.24 (0.41) 1.80 (0.84) 1.49 0.23 −0.08
    Cigarette Smoking3 2.46a,b (0.05) 2.56a (0.75) 2.15b (0.15) 3.07 0.05 −0.12
    Physical Activity Practice3 3.75 (0.12) 3.38 (0.18) 4.11 (0.36) 2.36 0.10 −0.11
1

P value for χ2 for trend.

2

Psychological and health variables were adjusted for baseline ISI and PSQI total scores (ANCOVAs).

3

Those ordinal variables are treated as continuous variables ranging from 1 (never) to 3 (every day) for cigarette smoking and from 1 (never) to 7 (every day) for physical activity practice. rp = Partial correlation. Note: Means with different subscripts (a, b, c) are significantly different.