Publication Details
| Ramona Schödel, Florian Pargent, Jiew-Quay Au, Sarah Theres Völkel, Tobias Schuwerk, Markus Bühner, Clemens Stachl
To Challenge the Morning Lark and the Night Owl: Using Smartphone Sensing Data to Investigate DayâNight Behaviour Patterns European Journal of Personality (bib) |
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| For decades, dayânight patterns in behaviour have been investigated by asking people about their sleepâwake timing, their diurnal activity patterns, and their sleep duration. We demonstrate that the increasing digitalization of lifestyle offers new possibilities for research to investigate dayânight patterns and related traits with the help of behavioural data. Using smartphone sensing, we collected in vivo data from 597 participants across several weeks and extracted behavioural dayânight pattern indicators. Using this data, we explored three popular research topics. First, we focused on individual differences in dayânight patterns by investigating whether âmorning larksâ and ânight owlsâ manifest in smartphoneâsensed behavioural indicators. Second, we examined whether personality traits are related to dayânight patterns. Finally, exploring social jetlag, we investigated whether traits and work weekly dayânight behaviours influence dayânight patterns on weekends. Our findings highlight that behavioural data play an essential role in understanding daily routines and their relations to personality traits. We discuss how psychological research can integrate new behavioural approaches to study personality. |
