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Coping effectiveness and dreams as a function of personality and dream recall
Author(s) -
Gerber Gwendolyn L.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<526::aid-jclp2270340259>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - psychology , dream , coping (psychology) , mood , personality , morning , recall , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , cognitive psychology
Investigated the proposition that effectiveness of coping with daytime and dream stress would be influenced by personality style, as defined by the Repression‐Sensitization scale (R‐S), and by dreaming style, as defined by frequent (F) or infrequent (I) questionnaire dream recall. The relationship between R‐S and F‐I dream recall also was explored. S s kept dream diaries for 30 consecutive days. Sensitizers, who were I recallers, had very low daytime self‐confidence scores. Repressors had more positive Dream Coping Scores than Sensitizers, and F recallers had more positive Dream Coping Scores than I recallers. Repressors had a positive morning mood, regardless of whether the ending of their dream was positive or negative. The morning mood of Sensitizers, particularly the I recallers, was dependent on the pleasantness‐unpleasantness of the dream ending. R‐S and F‐I questionnaire dream recall had a low positive correlation; no relationship was found between R‐S and F‐I dream diary recall.