Personality and dream recall frequency: Further negative findings

被引:23
作者
Blagrove, M [1 ]
Akehurst, L
机构
[1] Univ Wales, Dept Psychol, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales
[2] Univ Portsmouth, Dept Psychol, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, Hants, England
关键词
dreams; dream recall; personality; suggestibility;
D O I
10.1023/A:1009482223115
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
On the basis of previous findings of dream recall frequency being associated with thin boundariness and sensitivity we assessed the association between DRF and variables that appear related to these two measures. Data from 93 participants (47 males, 46 females, mean age 21.3 yrs., SD = 3.5) show: that dream recall frequency (DRF) correlates marginally with neuroticism (r = .20) and interrogative suggestibility (r = .21), the latter result indicating that DRF obtained by questionnaire may be subject to demand bias. DRF had very low correlations with various other personality variables (need for cognition, personal locus of control, hypochondriasis, morningness-eveningness), and with narrative memory, confabulation of narrative memory, and habitual sleep length. DRF correlated positively with POMS elated (-depressed) for males (r = .31) but negatively for females (r = -.19), this significant difference in correlations may be due to sex differences in DRF in response to stress. The frequent findings of small or nonsignificant correlations between DRF and personality are discussed ill terms of similar low correlations in personality psychology, but we conclude that DRF is usually sampled adequately, and that the results of no simple relationship with personality (except boundariness, creativity and positive attitude towards dreams) are therefore robust and may indicate that dream recall is mainly determined physiologically.
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