P02-194 - The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientations Scales for Screening Traumatic and PTSD-Related Dreams
Sang Bok Lee
European Psychiatry 2010 DOI: 10.1016/s0924-9338(10)70809-9 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 416 |
| Population | Korean college students in Yongin, South Korea: 198 males (mean age 20.46 years) and 218 females (mean age 20.17 years) |
| Measures | The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales, The Lee Anxiety Dream Scales |
| Topics | PTSD |
| Key findings | Of 1,248 dreams collected from 416 Korean college students, 392 (31%) were classified as traumatic or very/extremely anxious, and 36 (0.9% of all dreams) were frequently recurrent and classified as PTSD-related. The authors report strong positive correlations between traumatic dreams and unfamiliar (r=.85), accidental (r=.82), dreadful or fearful (r=.95), and not-coped-by-the-dreamer (r=.87) dream features. |
Abstract
Aim: The objective of this study was to differentiate ordinary dreams from traumatic and PTSD-related dreams, by using The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales assessing the narrative dream contents.
Methods: 1248 dreams were collected from 416 Korean college students, Yongin, South Korea - 198 males (M age=20.46 years, SD=1.32) and 218 females (M age=20.17, SD=1.26). The collected dreams were evaluated to find traumatic and PTSD-related dreams by using The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales, designed by Sang Bok Lee. These scales particularly asked about the dreamers a series of cognitive orientations that cover location, person, event, the dreamer's perception and coping action in the dream narratives. The PTSD-related dreams were hypothesized as having (1) frequently recurrent, (2) unfamiliar, (3) unexpected and accidental, (4) emotionally dreadful or fearful, and (5) not actively coped by the dreamer.
Results: 392 dreams (31%) of 1248 collected dreams were found as traumatic or very/extremely anxious dreams according to The Lee Anxiety Dream Scales (Mean=4.56). 36 dreams (0.9%) of 392 traumatic dreams were frequently recurrent and evaluated as PTSD-related. Strong positive correlation was found between 392 traumatic dreams and independent variables (unfamiliar: r=.85, p=0.0001; accidental: r=.82, p=0.0001; dreadful or fearful: r=.95, p=0.0001; not coped by the dreamer: r=.87, p=0.0001).
Conclusion: In this study, the traumatic and PTSD-related dreams were associated with unfamiliar, accidental, emotionally dreadful or fearful, not coped by the dreamer, and recurrent events.
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