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    Nightmare distress and emotion regulation
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2016) Rida Mahwish Siddiqui
    Emotion regulation has built several trends on emotional development. Emotion and their consequences are the main focus of researchers. The current study hypothesized that nightmare distress is correlated with emotion regulation and the individuals having more nightmares will have higher emotion dysregulation. Further, it was also hypothesized that experience of nightmare distress will be more in women as compare to men. Self-report data was provide by two hundred participants recruited from University of Management and Technology including students. The relation between nightmare distress and emotion regulation (cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression) was explored. Emotion regulation was assessed by administering Emotion Regulation Questionnaire developed by Gross and John (2003), Nightmare Experience Questionnaire designed by You Xu (2014), and frequency of nightmares, and emotional intensity was assessed on using a protocol made by Zadra (2006). Correlation Analysis reveals that age and cognitive reappraisal was non-significant. Moreover, individuals who expresses more dysregulated emotions will manifest more in nightmares and vice versa. While the experience of nightmare is same for both men and women. The study concludes that cognitive reappraisal is a predictor of nightmare distress. On the other hand, women use expressive suppression as way to regulate their emotions as compared to men, while there is no difference in the usage of cognitive reappraisal. Although this research uses university scaled sample, future research needs to collect more data on a higher scale to gather accurate statistics which can be more generalizable by using indigenous scale