Quantitative and qualitative scores on dream test.
M Zivković
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1996 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.3.867 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational study Qualitative Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 122 |
| Population | 122 dreams reported by 122 female psychology students, mean age 20 years |
| Measures | Dream Test (quantitative and qualitative scores), Initial-letter Word-association Test |
| Keywords | Humans Reproducibility of results Dreams Word association tests Psychometrics Reference values Students Adult Female |
| Key findings | The mean quantitative Dream Test score was 2+/3-, indicating a slight prevalence of minus over plus signs, with a mean of 5 selected key dream words. Among 122 dreams, Nightmares were the most frequent category (53, 43.1%), consistent with the minus-sign prevalence, followed by Love (35, 28.3%), Death (27, 22.0%), Atypical (7, 5.7%), and No dreams (1, 0.8%). |
Abstract
A quantitative Dream Test score is defined as the ratio of the number of the key dream words selected by a subject and given a plus sign to the number of the dream words given minus sign as is done on the Initial-letter Word-association Test. The mean quantitative Dream Test score is 2+/3- with a slight prevalence of minus over plus signs and the mean number of selected key dream words of 5. The qualitative Dream Test score was formulated to represent the dream categories and subcategories in which individual dreams are classified according to manifest dream content. From a sample of 122 dreams reported by 122 women, students in psychology (M age 20 yr.), dreams were categorized as Death (27 or 22.0%), Nightmares (53 or 43.1%), Love (35 or 28.3%), Atypical dreams (7 or 5.7%), and No dreams (1 or .8%). The most frequent qualitative Dream Test score was for Nightmares which is in accord with the slight prevalence of minus over plus signs in the Dream Test mean quantitative score.