Examination of the Relationships Between Dream Themes, Coping Attitudes, and Emotional Authenticity
Turkish Journal of Traumatic Stress May 31, 2026 Semiha Artuğ, Gökhan Özcan
Emotional authenticity is negatively associated with anxiety, fear, frustration, and negative dream themes, and positively associated with self-help, approach, and accommodation coping attitudes. Avoidance and self-punishment coping attitudes are positively linked to those negative dream themes. Self-punishment fully mediates the relationship between emotional authenticity and dream anxiety themes, suggesting dream content may reflect coping patterns and personality dynamics.