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Daily stress interacts with trait dissociation to predict sleep-related experiences in young adults.

Stress & Personality Lab, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology (impact factor: 4.86). 03/2011; 120(3):719-29. DOI:10.1037/a0022941 pp.719-29
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ABSTRACT Building on the previously documented effects of stress and dissociation on sleep and dreaming, we examined their interactive role in general sleep-related experiences (GSEs; e.g., nightmares, falling dreams, hypnagogic hallucinations; see Watson, 2001). Stress, sleep quality, and GSEs were assessed daily for 14 days among young adults. Baseline assessment included life stress, sleep quality, psychopathology, dissociation, and related dimensions. Multilevel analyses indicated that daily stress brings about GSEs among highly dissociative young adults. Additionally, baseline trait dissociation predicted within-subject elevation in GSEs when daily stress was high. Flawed sleep-wake transitions, previously linked to dissociation and sleep-related experiences, might account for this effect.

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Keywords

Baseline assessment
 
baseline trait dissociation
 
dimensions
 
dissociation
 
dissociative young adults
 
documented effects
 
dreaming
 
dreams
 
Flawed sleep-wake transitions
 
interactive role
 
life stress
 
psychopathology
 
sleep-related experiences
 
Watson
 
within-subject elevation
 
young adults