Godless owls, devout larks: Religiosity and conscientiousness are associated with morning preference and (partly) explain its effects on life satisfaction

Abstract

The associations between morningness-eveningness, conscientiousness, and religiosity have not been investigated to date. The aim of the present research was to provide evidence for the relationships between these dimensions. Moreover, we tested whether the well-established link between morningness and life satisfaction could be explained by elevated religiosity of morning-oriented individuals and whether this relationship may be mediated by conscientiousness. The investigation was conducted on two independent samples of Polish adults (N = 500 and N = 728). Our results corroborated earlier findings that morningness was positively associated with both conscientiousness and satisfaction with life. We also found evidence for a significant positive association between morningness and religiosity. Moreover, controlling for age and gender, we obtained significant mediation effects showing that the association between morningness-eveningness and satisfaction with life might stem, at least in part, from the higher religiosity among morning-oriented individuals, also when conscientiousness was included in the model. It means that more morning-oriented individuals may benefit from higher psychological well-being thanks to both personality characteristics and attitudes towards religion.

Blame it on the “night owls”: Perceived discrimination partly mediates the effects of morningness‐eveningness on positive and negative affect

“…Multiple studies provide evidence for marked correlations between M-E and certain personality features, with the strongest associations consistently reported for two of themconscientiousness and neuroticism (see e.g., Lipnevich et al, 2017). These traits may mediate the effects of diurnal preference on various outcomes, such as, for example, well-being (Drezno et al, 2019) or religiosity (Gorgol, Łowicki, & Stolarski, 2023). Perceptions of stigmatisation are associated with greater neuroticism and lower conscientiousness (Szcze sniak et al, 2021), hence personality profile making individuals more sensitive to manifestations of stigma seem consistent with the profile characteristic for the E-types.…”