جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « nightmare » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy (eft) on nightmares and emotional instability in people with borderline personality disorder. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population of the research was all patients with borderline personality disorder who were referred to a neuropsychiatric clinic in Yazd in 1401. Among them, 40 qualified volunteers were included in the study by Purposive sampling based on the entry and exit criteria of the research and then the people were randomly replaced into two experimental (20 people) and control (20 people) groups. The experimental group received 12 sessions of emotionally focused therapy, while the control group remained on the waiting list. The research tools included Schizotypal Trait questionnaire-Bform(STB) (Jackson & Claridge, 1991), Disturbing Dreams and Nightmares Severity Index (DDNSI) (Krakow, 2002), and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) (Gratz & Roemer, 2004). The results of multivariate covariance analysis showed that after controlling for the pre-test effect, there is a significant difference between the two experimental and control groups in the variables of nightmares and emotional instability in the post-test stage (P <0.001, F=53). based on the findings of this research, it is concluded that emotionally focused therapy is effective in improving nightmares and emotional instability of people with a borderline personality disorder.

Nightmares can cause general distress and sleep disturbances in the general population and negatively affect their subjective well-being. Knowing the predictors and etiology of recurring and distressing nightmares such as personality and demographic factors can help to understand and treat this disorder. The study population was undergraduate and graduate students of the Islamic Azad University, 300 of whom entered the study using a convenient sampling method. Participants responded to two items of the Mannheim Dream Questionnaire (Schredl, et. al., 2014) on the nightmare frequency and the nightmare distress, the Demographic Questionnaire, and the Neo Five-Factor Inventory (Costa, & McCrae, 1992). The Chi-square test and Kendall rank correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. Findings indicated that the nightmare frequency has a significant positive correlation with neuroticism and a significant negative correlation with openness to experience. Undergraduate students reported more nightmares than graduate students. Age and gender were not associated with the frequency and distress of nightmares. We explained the findings of this study in the light of the threat simulation theory and Nielsen and Levin’s neurocognitive model. It is suggested that future researchers use clinical interviews to explore further into common features in the life history of people diagnosed with nightmare disorders.