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Dreaming in Adolescents During the COVID-19 Health Crisis: Survey Among a Sample of European School Students
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media SA, 2021.
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Abstract
- According to the continuity hypothesis of dreaming and contemporary psychodynamic approaches, dreams reflect waking life. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and dreaming in adolescents. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Italy, Romania and Croatia involving 2,105 secondary school students (69% girls, mean age 15.6 ± 2.1 years; 31% boys, mean age 15.1 ± 2.2 years; mean age of whole sample 15.4 ± 2.1 years). No substantial differences between countries were found. Thirty-one percent of the participants reported heightened dream recall, 18% noticed an increase in nightmares during the lockdown, and 15% of the provided dreams (n = 498) included pandemic-related content. The results indicate that subjective emotional reactions to lockdown had a significantly higher correlation to dreaming than objective distress (i.e., illness or death of a close one because of COVID-19). These findings suggest that attention to dreams should be included in preventive programs for adolescents with pandemic-related stress.
- Subjects :
- nightmares
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Dream recall
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Sample (statistics)
Mean age
Psychodynamics
humanities
BF1-990
lockdown
Distress
emotional distress
school students
Psychology
COVID-19 health crisis
dreaming
adolescence
Content (Freudian dream analysis)
psychological phenomena and processes
General Psychology
Original Research
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ed189876dce5e2ffead52620eb63c095