Spanish adaptation of the Groningen Sleep Quality scale(GSQS-8)

  1. María-José Serrano-Fernández 1
  2. Joan Boada-Grau 1
  3. Lluís Robert-Sentís 1
  4. Maria Boada-Cuerva 2
  5. Andreu Vigil-Colet 1
  6. Jordi Assens-Serra 3
  1. 1 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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    Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00g5sqv46

  2. 2 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01f5wp925

  3. 3 EADA Business School
Zeitschrift:
Universitas psychologica

ISSN: 1657-9267

Datum der Publikation: 2020

Ausgabe: 19

Nummer: 1

Art: Artikel

DOI: 10.11144/JAVERIANA.UPSY19.SAGS DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen Access editor

Andere Publikationen in: Universitas psychologica

Zusammenfassung

Professional drivers are a group susceptible to sleep problems or incorrect rest patterns resulting from work stress that causes alterations in biological stress markers, such as cortisol, or in cardiovascular parameters that show a state of physiological hyper-activation. The current research objective was to adapt and validate the Groningen Sleep Scale (Meijman et al., 1990) in a Spanish population. We analysed its internal structure, reliability and evidence of validity. The participants in this study were 372 drivers (93.4% men, 6.6% women), with a mean age of 40.9 (SD = 10.54), obtained through non-probabilistic sampling. The SPSS 23.0 and AMOS (5.0) programs were used. With the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the AMOS program (5.0), the indicators NFI = 0.902; TLI = 0.844; CFI = 0.913; RMSEA = 0.129 were obtained and showed an acceptable adjustment of the unifactorial model with 8 items. Adequate reliability (0.90) and appropriate evidence of validity with TDS-38, MBI-GS, Irritation, MP-9, DII, and Trans-18. We can conclude that the Groningen Sleep Scale (GSQS-8) is a reliable and valid instrument, suitable in the Spanish language for evaluating the sleep quality of professional drivers.