Elucidating nightmare proneness: Relationships with emotional dysregulation and psychological vulnerability.

Dreaming, Vol 32(3), Sep 2022, 281-291; doi:10.1037/drm0000207Previous research found that nightmare proneness, a personality disposition to experience frequent nightmares, independently predicted nightmare occurrences after accounting for maladjustment. However, mechanisms involved in the nightmare proneness construct are not well understood. The current study examined a model in which vulnerability and emotional dysregulation influenced nightmare proneness among 143 university students. Consistent with the model, vulnerability and emotional dysregulation independently predicted nightmare proneness after accounting for distress and gender. Only nightmare proneness accounted for unique variance in nightmare frequency, but vulnerability and emotional dysregulation influenced nightmare frequency indirectly through nightmare proneness. The results and suggestions for future research were discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Dreaming - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research