?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Anxiety+upon+Awakening+and+Attributes+of+Dream+Characters&rft.creator=Saez-Uribarri%2C+I%C3%B1igo&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=Objective%3A+To+explore+the+attributes+of+dream+characters+related+to+anxiety+upon+awakening%2C+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%2C+such+as+those+of+Hall+and+Van+de+Castle+and+Gottschalk-Gleser.+Method%3A+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%3A+With+37+character+attributes+a+KMO+sampling+adequacy+index+of+0.83+was+obtained+and+33.87%25+of+the+variance+was+explained.+Four+factors+were+extracted%3A+Psychological+Threat%2C+Auxiliary%2C+Terrifying+Threat+and+Spectator%2FVictim.+Their+corresponding+alpha+coefficients+ranged+between+0.85+and+0.73+and+three+of+the+factors+presented+significant+(p+%C2%A3+0.05)correlations+with+the+anxiety+of+subjects+upon+awakening.+Conclusions%3A+Our+results+indicate+that+self-report+questionnaires+about+subjects%E2%80%99+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%2C+which+does+not+contain+biases+due+to+the+assessor+or+the+ability+of+the+subject+to+create+a+report.&rft.publisher=SES+-+Sociedad+Espa%C3%B1ola+de+Sue%C3%B1o&rft.date=2008&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7069%2F4%2FDream_Characters.pdf&rft.identifier=++Saez-Uribarri%2C+I%C3%B1igo++(2008)+Anxiety+upon+Awakening+and+Attributes+of+Dream+Characters.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7069%2F