Dream-lucidity as a predictor of psychosis proneness in young adults
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2016
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University of Management and Technolog
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The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between lucid dreaming, psychosis proneness, nightmare and suppression. It was hypothesized that attitude towards dream and dream recall will have a relationship with lucid dream and psychosis proneness, dream lucidity as a predictor of psychosis proneness, suppression and nightmare as mediator and moderator in between the prediction respectively, and the difference by gender and institute among variables. Survey method was used for data collection, where total sample were of (N=220) with Men (n=96) and Women (n=124) of the age range of 18-26. The Inventory of Personality Organization (Lenzenweger, Clarkin, Kernberg&Foelsch, 2001), The Lucid and Consciousness Scale (Voss, et al, 2013), The Mannheim Dream Questionnaire (Schredl, Berres, Klingauf, Schellhaas&Göritz, 2014) and Self-Regulation Withholding Negative Emotion (Kim, Deci& Zuckerman, 2002) were used to access psychosis proneness, lucid dream, nightmare and suppression respectively. Result of Pearson Correlation revealed that attitude towards dream and dream recall is associated with dream lucidity and psychosis proneness. Linear regression revealed that lucid dreaming is a positive and significant predictor of psychosis proneness. Nightmare distress as moderator negatively and significantly influences psychosis while suppression has no influence on psychosis proneness. Similarly, t-test result significantly reported that men were high on dream lucidity and psychosis proneness then women. Present study proves in relevant to our culture that obsession for control of dreams can lead to unhealthy psychological health. Yet lucid dream can be used as a treatment for nightmare distress and our cultural, mendominant nature makes them high among lucid dreaming and psychosis proneness. Further it is guided to explore more causal factors of lucidity predicting psychosis.
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Supervised by: Dr. Rabia Farooqi
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Dream Lucidity, Psychosis Proneness, Nightmare and Suppression,, BS thesis