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Mindfulness and dream quality: The inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect
Author(s) -
SIMOR PÉTER,
KÖTELES FERENC,
SÁNDOR PIROSKA,
PETKE ZSOLT,
BÓDIZS RÓBERT
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2011.00888.x
Subject(s) - mindfulness , psychology , dream , affect (linguistics) , psychotherapist , quality (philosophy) , clinical psychology , social psychology , communication , epistemology , philosophy
Simor, P., Köteles, F., Sándor, P., Petke, Z. & Bódizs, R. (2011). Mindfulness and dream quality: The inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 369–375. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship of mindfulness to the emotional quality of dreaming. In our questionnaire‐based study, comprising the data of 587 undergraduate students we examined the association between trait anxiety, perceived stress, trait mindfulness, negative dream affect and dream anxiety. Our results indicate that mindfulness is inversely related to disturbed dreaming and predicts less severe dream disturbances after controlling for trait anxiety. Moreover, the results of the applied hierarchical regression analysis suggest that mindfulness is associated with reduced dream anxiety by moderating the extent of waking anxiety. Our findings extend previous research relating mindfulness, emotional regulation and sleep quality to the domain of dream research. We suggest that mindfulness is a possible protective factor against dream disturbances.