Associations Between Both Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Constructs and Emotional Load and Content of Adult Dreams.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It seems that personality and dreams are relatively stable interwoven constructs that show many shared characteristics across cultures. The present study aimed to predict the emotional load and content of dreams using both original constructs and two extracted spectrum factors of adaptive and maladaptive personalities.

Methods

The cross-sectional study data was collected from 704 Iranian adults using the brief version of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5, the brief version of the Big Five Inventory, Schredl's Dream Emotions Manual, and the Content Analysis of Dreams Manual. Pearson correlations, hierarchical regressions, exploratory factor analysis, and analysis of variance were used to analyse the data.

Results

Factor analysis reveal

SUBMITTER: Komasi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11572320 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature