Text analysis of veteran nightmare scripts in a cognitive-behavioral nightmare treatment.

This study reports on the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count variables of word count, affective processes, positive and negative emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives in 20 veterans participating in a study examining the efficacy of exposure, relaxation, and rescripting therapy for posttrauma nightmares. It was hypothesized that there would be significant increases in affective processes, positive emotion words, cognitive processes, and drives and significant decreases in negative emotion words and word count from nightmare transcription to rescription. It was further hypothesized that noncombat-related nightmares would demonstrate significantly larger changes in Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count processes than combat-related nightmares. The analysis revealed a significant decrease in word count (p

Source: Dreaming - August 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research