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Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems

Calvin Kai-ching Yu.


Abstract
This study investigated the extent to which negative emotions, personality traits, and obsessive-compulsive distress modulate the relationship between sleep problems and dream experiences. The sample consisted of 610 upper secondary school students, whose subjective intensity of dream experiences, thematic dream content, obsessive-compulsive distress, personality traits, defensiveness, emotional qualities, and sleep disturbances were assessed using the Dream Intensity Scale, Dream Motif Scale, Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised, NEO Five-Factor Inventory, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Beck Depression Inventory-II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, State-Trait Anger Expression Iventory-2, and Sleep Habits Questionnaire. The overall findings indicate that waking-life emotionality, personality traits, obsessive-compulsive distress, and other important factors for sleep quality – such as the ability to unwind one’s mind when retiring to sleep – moderate but do not mediate the relationship between disrupted sleep and dreaming. It seems, therefore, that dream experiences can serve as unique indicators of sleep problems.

Key words: dream experiences, emotions, obsessive-compulsion, personality, sleep disorders


 
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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu. Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems. Sleep Hypn. 2016; 18(2): 30-40.

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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu. Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems. Sleep Hypn. (2016), [cited June 23, 2026]; 18(2): 30-40.


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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu (2016) Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems. Sleep Hypn, 18 (2), 30-40.


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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu. 2016. Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems. Sleep and Hypnosis, 18 (2), 30-40.


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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu. "Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems." Sleep and Hypnosis 18 (2016), 30-40.


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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu. "Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems." Sleep and Hypnosis 18.2 (2016), 30-40. Print.


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Calvin Kai-Ching Yu (2016) Obsessions at Night: Dream Experiences, Emotional Attributes, and Personality Traits as Indicators of Sleep Problems. Sleep and Hypnosis, 18 (2), 30-40.


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