Anxiety and dream symbolism

The present study replicates and extends previous findings of a relation between anxiety level and the use of dream symbolism Anxiety, assessed by self‐reports over a ten‐day period, was positively related to the use of sexual symbolism identified from dream reports obtained over the same period The...

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Published inJournal of personality Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 17 - 22
Main Authors Robbins, Paul R, Tanck, Roland H, Houshi, Farzaneh
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.1985
Blackwell
Duke University Press
Subjects
Anxiety - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Dreams
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Male
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Psychoanalytic theories
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Sex
Symbolism
Dream
Affect affectivity
Anxiety
Symbolism
Psychoanalysis
Sexuality
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Summary:The present study replicates and extends previous findings of a relation between anxiety level and the use of dream symbolism Anxiety, assessed by self‐reports over a ten‐day period, was positively related to the use of sexual symbolism identified from dream reports obtained over the same period The appearance of symbolic dreams, however, was not preceded by elevated levels of anxiety A positive relation was uncovered between the measure of anxiety and a measure of manifest sexual content in the dreams
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ISSN:0022-3506
1467-6494
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1985.tb00885.x