Dreams About COVID-19 Versus Normative Dreams: Trends by Gender
Dreams About COVID-19 Versus Normative Dreams: Trends by Gender
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DOI：
10.1037/drm0000149
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Barrett, Deirdre
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作者：
Barrett, Deirdre
通过一项在线调查从2888名梦想者中收集了关于新冠肺炎疫情的梦，并将其与早期的正常梦进行了比较。总共使用了9类情绪和身体关注的语言调查和字数统计(LIWC)。正如做梦的连续性假说所预测的那样，女性在梦中表现出的积极情绪明显较少，而负面情绪、焦虑、悲伤、愤怒、身体内容、生物过程、健康和死亡的比例较高。对于男性受访者来说，LIWC变量健康的预测较高得分是唯一一个与女性一样高的显著得分。与女性相比，LIWC的积极情绪、负面情绪、焦虑和死亡在预测的方向上升高的显著性水平较低。在大流行梦境和标准样本中，男性的愤怒、悲伤和身体变量没有区别。根据两个群体的痛苦和具体关切的连续性假设，并考虑到在大流行期间女性的许多应激源的比率高于男性，对结果进行了讨论。
Dreams about the COVID-19 pandemic were collected from 2,888 dreamers via an online survey and compared to normative dreams from an earlier period. A total of 9 categories of emotions and body concerns from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) were utilized. As predicted by the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, women showed significantly lower positive emotions in their dreams and higher rates of negative emotions, anxiety, sadness, anger, body content, references to biological processes, health, and death. For male respondents, the predicted higher score for the LIWC variable health was the only one significant at as high a level as for women. LIWC positive emotions, negative emotions, anxiety, and death were elevated in the predicted direction at lower significance levels than the effects for women. The variables anger, sadness, and body did not differ for men between the pandemic dreams and the normative sample. Results are discussed in terms of the continuity hypothesis both for distress and specific concerns of both groups and in light of the higher rate of many stressors for women versus men during the pandemic.