Certain subjective correlates of sleep quality and their relation to the euphoric attitude

Abstract

292 men and 289 women "answered a questionnaire relating to their present euphoria (how well they felt), and a group of six subjective correlates applied to the sleep of the night before." Euphoria was rated on a scale of +5 to -5. "The correlates of sleep were: ease of going to sleep, amount of dreaming, pleasantness of dreams, continuity of sleep, extent of being rested on awakening, and quality of sleep. Each correlate was checked in respect to 3 possible degrees of its occurrence." The highest contingency correlations were between: continuity and quality of sleep, .46; ease of going to sleep and quality of sleep, .41; and euphoria and being rested, .41. The lowest correlations were between: amount of dreaming and being rested, -.11; and amount of dreaming and euphoria, -.11. The average euphoria for men was 1.80; for women, 2.22. The average euphoria for subjects answering in February and March 1940 was 2.36; in March 1941, 1.35. These differences in euphoria were accompanied by differences in salutary sleep characteristics. "The relationship of the subjective characteristics of sleep to euphoria… appears to be more pronounced than the relationship of more objective characteristics such as amount and regularity found by the writer in earlier studies." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)