The fall of vulnerability to sleep disturbances in evening chronotypes when working from home and its implications for depression.

ABSTRACT: Eveningness is distinctively associated with sleep disturbances and depression symptoms due to the misalignment between biological and social clocks. The widespread imposition of remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic allowed a more flexible sleep schedule. This scenario could promote sleep and mental health in evening-type subjects. We investigated the effect of working from home on sleep quality/quantity and insomnia symptoms within the morningness-eveningness continuum, and its indirect repercussions on depressive symptomatology. A total of 610 Italian office workers (mean age ± standard deviation, 35.47 ± 10.17 years) and 265 remote workers (40.31 ± 10.69 years) participated in a web-based survey during the second contagion wave of COVID-19 (28 November-11 December 2020). We evalu

SUBMITTER: Salfi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9293935 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature