Open Access<p>What Do You Think About Your Dreams? The Construction of a Belief About Dreams Questionnaire</p>
Author(s) -
Peihuan Li,
Feilong Yang,
Xiang Wang,
Rui Yao,
Ji Dai,
Deng Yun-long
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nature and science of sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.715
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1179-1608
DOI - 10.2147/nss.s227154
Subject(s) - nightmare , dream , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , mental health , anxiety , distress , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , psychiatry , psychotherapist , statistics , mathematics
Nightmare distress (ND) is associated with a broad spectrum of psychopathological conditions such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder. Some studies have indicated that dream beliefs play an important role in the occurrence and treatment of nightmare distress. However, existing instruments used to assess dream beliefs either fail to satisfy the requirements of the psychometrics or fail to capture the essence of dream beliefs. This research pursued two objectives: (1) to develop a questionnaire, called the Beliefs About Dreams Questionnaire (BADQ), to measure beliefs people hold about their dreams and (2) to describe the dream beliefs of Chinese college students.