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Anxiety upon Awakening and Attributes of Dream Characters

Saez-Uribarri, Iñigo (2008) Anxiety upon Awakening and Attributes of Dream Characters. [Journal (Paginated)]

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Objective: To explore the attributes of dream characters related to anxiety upon awakening, and the possibility of using these attributes to construct a questionnaire administered to dreamers as an alternative to traditional methods of dream content coding via trained judges, such as those of Hall and Van de Castle and Gottschalk-Gleser. Method: A sample of 169 volunteers rated their dream characters with adjectives. Character attributes related to anxiety upon awakening were analysed through an exploratory factor analysis with orthogonal rotation. Results: With 37 character attributes a KMO sampling adequacy index of 0.83 was obtained and 33.87% of the variance was explained. Four factors were extracted: Psychological Threat, Auxiliary, Terrifying Threat and Spectator/Victim. Their corresponding alpha coefficients ranged between 0.85 and 0.73 and three of the factors presented significant (p £ 0.05)correlations with the anxiety of subjects upon awakening. Conclusions: Our results indicate that self-report questionnaires about subjects’ dreams are a reliable and valid alternative for assessing dream content. Information obtained about the characters allows for the assessment of the dream and provides indicators which allow for a simple interpretation, which does not contain biases due to the assessor or the ability of the subject to create a report.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Additional Information:This article has been localized of Spanish
Keywords:Content analysis, dreams, nightmares, questionnaires, sleep, state anxiety
Subjects:Psychology > Cognitive Psychology
Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology > Psycholinguistics
ID Code:7069
Deposited By: Saez-Uribarri, Iñigo
Deposited On:26 Oct 2010 18:23
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:57

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