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Validation of the Korean Munich Chronotype Questionnaire

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Abstract

Purpose

The Munich Chronotype Questionnaire (MCTQ) assesses actual sleep-wake timing and has advantages compared to prior chronotype questionnaires in that it differentiates sleep-wake patterns between work days and free days and uses corrected mid-sleep time on free days after correcting for accumulated sleep debt over the week to categorize chronotype. The current study, we validated the Korean version of the MCTQ.

Methods

In this study, 310 participants (mean age = 27.09 ± 5.64; 78.1% females) completed the Korean version of the MCTQ.

Results

MCTQ parameters were significantly correlated with MEQ (Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire) scores (│r│ ≥ 0.48), and test-retest reliability was ≥ 0.72. Cutoff scores of 2.5%, which correlated to 2.36 and 8.57 mid-sleep times in our sample, showed the best convergence with MEQ when categorizing chronotype.

Conclusions

Our study suggests that the MCTQ is a useful questionnaire in assessing chronotype in young adults.

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Acknowledgments

We thank to Celine Vetter and Till Roenneberg for their help with this study.

Funding

This work was supported by the Sungshin University Research Grant of 2017–1–29-007. This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Republic of Korea (2017R1A2B4003120) and by Samsung Biomedical Research Institute grant (#SMO1162071).

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  1. Department of Psychology, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

    Sooyeon Suh, Soo Hyun Kim & Hyera Ryu

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Sooyeon Suh

  3. Department of Nursing, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

    Su Jung Choi

  4. Department of Clinical Nursing Science, Graduate School of Clinical Nursing Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

    Su Jung Choi

  5. Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Center, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Samsung Medical Center, Annex 3rd F, #7, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06351, South Korea

    Eun Yeon Joo

  6. Department of Health Sciences and Technology, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

    Eun Yeon Joo

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Suh, S., Kim, S.H., Ryu, H. et al. Validation of the Korean Munich Chronotype Questionnaire. Sleep Breath 22, 773–779 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-017-1609-z

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Keywords

  • Sleep
  • Chronotype
  • Munich Chronotype Questionnaire
  • Mid-sleep time
  • Validation