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Reliability of the Spanish version of the Composite Scale of Morningness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A. Adan ,
H. Caci  and
G. Prat
A. Adan*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig Vall d’Hebrón 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
H. Caci
Affiliation:
Service de pédiatrie, hôpital Archet-2, CHU de Nice, 151, route de Saint-Antoine-de-Ginestière, 06202Nice cedex 3, France
G. Prat
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig Vall d’Hebrón 171, 08035Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address:aadan@ub.edu (A. Adan).
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Abstract

Aim

The aim of this study was to examine the reliability of the Spanish version of Composite Scale of Morningness (CSM) and its ability to measure the circadian typology.

Subjects and methods

Voluntary and unpaid psychology students (N = 391; 132 men and 259 women), aged between 17 and 33, completed the questionnaire between the months of September and December.

Results

The total score was independent of age and gender, with a close to normal distribution and a non-significant negative skewness. The internal consistency was high (Cronbach’s α = 0.87) and factor analysis extracted three factors labeled Time of Retiring (items 2 and 7), Activity Planning (items 8, 9, and 13) and Morning Affect (items 3–6, and 10–12). With the 10th and 90th percentiles as cut-off scores, scorers below 22 (N = 40; 10.2%) are classified as evening-types and scorers above 39 as morning-types (N = 28; 7.2%).

Conclusion

The Spanish questionnaire shares most of the good psychometric properties of other versions of the CSM, and thus can be used for Spanish-speaking student samples. Nevertheless, further studies of normative data in workers and aged subjects are needed in order to validate CSM.

Keywords

ChronobiologyCircadian rhythmsChronotypeMorningnessEveningnessQuestionnaireGender differences
Type
Scales and Measurement of Psychopathology
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 20 , Issue 7 , November 2005 , pp. 503 - 509
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Copyright © Elsevier SAS 2005

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