Temperament, Character, and Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms: Focusing on Affect

Table 2

Mean (±SD) scores for stress, energy, large sleep problems, difficulties falling asleep, and psychobiological problems among affective profiles.

	Self-fulfilling	High affective	Low affective	Self-destructive
	(high PA and low NA)	(high PA and high NA)	(low PA and low NA)	(low PA and high NA)
Energy	30.49±.86^∗	26.02±.89	23.90±.88	21.70±.73
Stress	15.94±.99	20.16 ± 1.13^▲	16.04±.86	26.50 ± 1.15^▲
Major sleep problems	15.50±4.20	19.30 ± 4.19^▲	17.30 ± 4.69^▲	19.95 ± 4.86^▲
Difficulties falling asleep	17.42 ± 4.29	21.34 ± 4.96^▲	18.52 ± 4.88	23.52 ± 6.49^▲
Psychophysiological problems	20.61±.93	25.63 ± 1.07^▲	24.06 ± 1.09^▲	29.24 ± 1.09^▲

𝑁=304, ^*higher than the other three groups, ^▲higher than self-fulfilling.