The Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire in Relation to the Temperament and Character Inventory of Personality in Korean High School Students

SPAQ에 의한 계절성과 TCI에 의해 평가된 기질과 성격과의 관련성 - 한국 고등학생을 대상으로 -

Objectives : Recently, many authors investigated the relation of temperament and character to seasonality and the genetic factors in seasonality and personality. In this study, we investigated the relation between personality structure obtained from the psychobiological Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and self-reported seasonal variations in mood and behavior measured by the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ). Methods : 600 high-school students who live in Seoul of Korea, were participated in this study. Subjects were surveyed with the Korean translation of the SPAQ of Rosenthal, an instrument for investigating mood and behavioral changes with respect to the seasons of the you. Korean version of the TCI of Cloninger was also used for assessment of personality. Results : Female students were significantly higher scores on harm avoidance, reward dependence, and cooperativeness than male students who had significant higher scores on persistence and self·transcendence than the formers. GSS were showed positive correlation with harm avoidance and self-transcendence, and negative correlation with cooperativeness and self-directedness. By employing logistic regressions, the regression coefficients of SAD were significantly negative in SD, and positive in ST. Also, the regression coefficients of S-SAD were significantly negative in CO, and positive in ST. Those with GSS at least 11 were significantly higher mean ST values compared to the remaining individuals, and those with worst in winter were significantly lower mean CO values compared to the remaining individuals. Those who considered the seasonality as a problem at least to a moderate degree were associated with high HA and ST. Conclusion : We add the evidence that the seasonality is related to the temperament and character. Although there have been many reports about the seasonality in relation to the temperament and character in foreign countries, there has been very limited report from Korea before. We hope that this result would be a helpful in the clinical field in Korea.

연구목적: 고등학생을 대상으로 계절성 평가 도구인 계절성 양상 평가 설문지(Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire, SPAQ)와 인격 성향을 평가하는 기질과 성격 검사(Temperament and Character Inventory, TCI)와의 상관관계에 대해 조사하여 계절성과 인격 구조와의 유전적 요인과의 관계에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: 서울에 거주하는 600명의 고등학생을 대상으로 Rosenthal의 SPAQ와 Cloninger의 TCI 한국어판을 사용하였다. 결과 : 여학생은 harm avoidance, reward dependence, cooperativeness에서 높은 점수가 나온 반면 남학생에서는 persistence, self-transcendence에서 높은 점수가 나왔다. 총계절성 점수(Global seasonality score)와 TCI의 하부척도를 비교한 결과 harm avoidance, self-transcendence와는 정적 상관관계가 나타났으며, self-directedness, cooperativeness와는 부적 상관관계가 나타났다. 로지스틱 회귀분석 결과, SAD의 경우 회귀계수는 self-directedness와 유의한 부적 상관관계가 나타났으며 self-transcendence와는 정적 상관관계가 나타났다. S-SAD의 경우에는 cooperativeness와 부적 상관관계를 보였으며 self-transcendence와는 정적 상관관계를 보였다. GSS가 11점 이상일 경우에는 그렇지 않은 경우에 비해 self-transcendence 점수가 높게 나타났으며, 겨울에 가장 기분이 저하되는 경우에는 그렇지 않은 경우에 비해 더 낮은 cooperativeness 점수를 보였다. 계절성 변동이 중등도 이상의 문제를 일으키는 경우에는 높은 harm avoidance, self-transcendence 점수를 보였다. 결론: 계절성과 성격 및 기질적인 부분이 서로 연관성을 보였다. 이 연구가 우리나라에서 고등학생을 대상으로 한 최초의 연구로서 여기에서 보인 결과들은 임상적 적용에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 보인다.