Abstract
The Sleep Behavior Self-Rating Scale was developed to assess sleep-incompatible behaviors associated with a person's bedroom or bed. The scale was administered to 121 normal subjects and 81 clinical subjects with further differentiation of the two sample populations into insomniacs and noninsomniacs on the basis of reported “latency of sleep onset” or “total hours of sleep”. The scale proved to have both high test-retest reliability ( r =.88) and internal consistency. The scale discriminated between insomniacs and noninsomniacs when insomnia was operationally defined as the latency of sleep onset. The scale did not differentiate between insomniacs and noninsomniacs when the criterion measure of insomnia was “total hours of sleep” nor correlate with Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Zung Depression Scale suggesting that it is measuring some unique aspects of sleep-related activities that are independent of measures of anxiety and depression.
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