Bad dreams, bedtime anxiety, and trait anxiety in school-aged children
| العنوان: | Bad dreams, bedtime anxiety, and trait anxiety in school-aged children |
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| المؤلفون: | Michael Schredl |
| المصدر: | Somnologie. 24:267-273 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Nightmare disorder, media_common.quotation_subject, Bedtime, 050105 experimental psychology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Physiology (medical), medicine, Distressing, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Dream, book, media_common, 05 social sciences, book.written_work, medicine.disease, humanities, Nightmare, Distress, Anxiety, Bad dreams, medicine.symptom, Psychology, psychological phenomena and processes, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Clinical psychology |
| الوصف: | Background and objectives Occasional nightmares (distressing dreams that awaking the sleeper) and bad dreams (distressing dreams that do not awaking the sleeper) are very common in children and adolescents. About 5% of children experience frequent nightmares (once a week or more often) and the question arises as to what factors contribute to significant nightmare distress which is basic for diagnosing a nightmare disorder. Materials and methods A sample of 624 school-aged children (10–16 years; mean age 12.45 ± 1.33 years) completed a dream questionnaire and an anxiety inventory. Results About 11% of the participants reported frequent bad dreams; 3.5% reported frequent bedtime anxieties due to bad dreams. Similar to the findings in adults, distress due to bad dreams was not only related to bad dream frequency but also to trait anxiety—controlling for the direct effect of trait anxiety on bad dream frequency, i.e., bad dream frequency and trait anxiety contributed independently to bedtime anxiety due to bad dreams. In the exploratory part, the cultural background of the children’s parents showed only minor effects on bad dreams. Conclusion Similar to nightmare studies in adults, bad dream frequency and trait anxiety contributed independently to bad dream distress. Based on the current diagnostic criteria of the nightmare disorder, it would be interesting to have the opportunity to treat children with significant distress due to nightmares or bad dreams and study the long-term benefit—given that many adult nightmare sufferers reported that their nightmares started in childhood. |
| تدمد: | 1439-054X 1432-9123 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11818-020-00268-3 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a88a7168b1d51026e679a8f85421fff2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11818-020-00268-3 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........a88a7168b1d51026e679a8f85421fff2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1439054X 14329123 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11818-020-00268-3 |