Relationship between dissociative experiences, abnormal sleep experiences, and sleep quality in undergraduate students
Suat Küçükgöncü, Evin Aktar, Ebru Erginbas, Emrem Beştepe, Celal Çalıkuşu, Fulya Algın, Şahap Erkoç
Dusunen Adam The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences June 30, 2010 DOI: 10.5350/dajpn2010230201 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational cross-sectional study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 127 |
| Population | Undergraduate students |
| Measures | Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), Iowa Sleep Experiences Scales (ISES), Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) |
| Citations | 14 |
| Key findings | Dissociative experiences correlated moderately with general sleep experiences, and sleep disturbances and sleeping medication use were weakly related to general sleep experiences; lucid dreaming showed no correlation with dissociation or sleep quality. |
Abstract
Relationship between dissociative experiences, abnormal sleep experiences, and sleep quality in undergraduate students
Objective: To investigate the association between dissociative experiences, sleep related experiences and sleep quality.
Method: 127 undergraduate students have completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), the Iowa Sleep Experiences Scales (ISES) and the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).
Results: DES total and DES Taxon scores were moderately correlated with total ISES and ISES General Sleep Experiences (GS) subscale scores. PSQI total scores as well as the scores from PSQI subscales of sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication and daytime dysfunction were weakly correlated with total ISES and ISES GS subscale scores. DES and PSQI total and subscale scores were not correlated with the lucid dreaming (LD) subscale of ISES. DES total scores explained a considerable amount of variance in ISES GS scores. Sleep disturbances and use of sleeping medication as indicators of sleep problems, were related to ISES GS.
Conclusions: The present study showed the association between dissociative experiences and nighttime experiences and further revealed that some aspects of general sleep quality, especially the ones related to sleep problems are also related to both dissociation and general sleep experiences.