The relationship between sleep quality and fear of COVID-19, anxiety, personality traits in working women

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Keskin, Gülseren^{a; 1} | Gümüşsoy, Süreyya^{a; 2} | Taşdemir Yiğitoğlu, Gülay^{b; *}

Affiliations: [a] Ege University Atatürk Medical Vocational Training School, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey | [b] Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Pamukkale University, Kınıklı Campus, Denizli, Turkey

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Gülay Taşdemir Yiğitoğlu (PhD, RN) (GTY), Pamukkale University, Faculty of Health Science, Department of Nursing, Floor 3, Block C, Kınıklı Campus, Postal Code: 20160, Denizli, Turkey. Tel.: +90 538 641 86 74; E-mail: gyigitoglu@pau.edu.tr/gtasdemir@gmail.com, ORCID number: 0000-0002-8075-7155.

Note: [1] ORCID number: 0000-0002-5155-0948.

Note: [2] ORCID number: 0000-0001-5708-8988.

Abstract: BACKGROUND:Disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic have serious traumatic effects on people, who may experience sleep problems, anxiety, and fear in the face of such a stressor. OBJECTIVE:This study is conducted to examine the relationship between sleep quality and fear of COVID-19, anxiety, and personality traits in working women. METHOD:This research was a descriptive study between June to August 2021. The study was conducted with 425 participants. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, COVID-19 Fear Scale, Beck Anxiety Scale, and the revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Short Form were applied to the participants. T-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation analysis, were used. RESULTS:In the study, it was found that the total average score of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale was 18.83±5.5, while the score of sleep quality was 5.40±3.3 and the anxiety score was 14.01±12.4. On the other hand, the score of Extraversion was determined as 3.73±1.7, Neuroticism was 3.79±1.8, and Psychoticism was 1.97±1 in the study. Moreover, a statistically significant positive correlation was found between sleep quality and fear of COVID-19, anxiety, and neuroticism in working women (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION:Sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep disturbance; daytime dysfunction, use of sleep medication, sleep duration, sleep latency with anxiety; sleep latency, sleep quality, daytime dysfunction, sleep duration were found to be linked to neuroticism, and use of sleep medication and sleep duration were found to be linked to psychoticism. It was concluded that there was a relationship between sleep quality and fear of COVID-19, anxiety, and personality traits in working women.

Keywords: Distress, fear, pandemic, personality, sleep, gender

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-230724

Journal: Work, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 1939-1950, 2024