Six studies are presented whose combined goals were to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of repetition and negative affect in dreams, dream content measures, and measures of well-being. Study 1 presents the results of a content analysis of childhood and adult recurrent dreams. Study 2 showed that recurrent dreamers score lower on measures of well-being and report more negative dream content than both past-recurrent dreamers and non-recurrent dreamers. Study 3 showed that people who experience recurrent dream themes report low levels of well-being and negative dream content, but not to the extent shown by people with recurrent dreams. Underlying assumptions of commonly proposed definitions for nightmares were tested in Study 4. Study 5 showed that people with frequent nightmares score lower on indices of well-being than people with frequent bad dreams, who score lower than control subjects. Study 6 presents five cases of recurrent nightmare sufferers who were treated successfully with lucid dreaming.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.28968 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Zadra, Antonio L. |
| Contributors | Donderi, D. C. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Psychology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001447502, proquestno: NN05817, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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