Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem
While there is evidence of continuity between waking life and dream content, findings with regard to personality are questionable due to methodological issues. In addition, previous studies have used explicit measures, although one could assume that dream content, which is formed implicitly, should...
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| description | While there is evidence of continuity between waking life and dream content, findings with regard to personality are questionable due to methodological issues. In addition, previous studies have used explicit measures, although one could assume that dream content, which is formed implicitly, should have a closer relationship with implicit measures of personality. We investigated how explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem are related to two possibly pertinent variables of dream content. We analyzed 1359 dreams collected from 85 participants. We found that one dream content variable, the proportion of self-esteem-relevant dreams, was significantly related to self-esteem, corroborating the idea of a continuity between waking life and dreaming. Interestingly, the relationship was present only for dreams relevant to social self-esteem. This finding can be considered an example of the well-known sociality bias of dreams. Contrary to our expectations, these results were obtained only for explicit measures but not for implicit ones. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c654dbbaeac84dfd829e36b3c95879422025-08-20T02:39:29ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182024-11-0125110458210.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104582Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteemLuca Alexander Naudszus0Tobias Altmann1Marcus Roth2Individual Differences, Department of Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 2, 45141 Essen, Germany; Professorship for Social Brain Sciences, ETH Zürich, Stampfenbachstrasse 69, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; Corresponding author at: Individual Differences, Department of Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 2, 45141 Essen, Germany.Individual Differences, Department of Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 2, 45141 Essen, GermanyIndividual Differences, Department of Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 2, 45141 Essen, GermanyWhile there is evidence of continuity between waking life and dream content, findings with regard to personality are questionable due to methodological issues. In addition, previous studies have used explicit measures, although one could assume that dream content, which is formed implicitly, should have a closer relationship with implicit measures of personality. We investigated how explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem are related to two possibly pertinent variables of dream content. We analyzed 1359 dreams collected from 85 participants. We found that one dream content variable, the proportion of self-esteem-relevant dreams, was significantly related to self-esteem, corroborating the idea of a continuity between waking life and dreaming. Interestingly, the relationship was present only for dreams relevant to social self-esteem. This finding can be considered an example of the well-known sociality bias of dreams. Contrary to our expectations, these results were obtained only for explicit measures but not for implicit ones.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824004608Dream contentSelf-esteemImplicit measuresContinuity hypothesisSociality bias |
| spellingShingle | Luca Alexander Naudszus Tobias Altmann Marcus Roth Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem Acta Psychologica Dream content Self-esteem Implicit measures Continuity hypothesis Sociality bias |
| title | Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem |
| title_full | Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem |
| title_fullStr | Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem |
| title_short | Relationships between self-esteem-related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self-esteem |
| title_sort | relationships between self esteem related dream content and explicit and implicit measures of self esteem |
| topic | Dream content Self-esteem Implicit measures Continuity hypothesis Sociality bias |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824004608 |
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