Iñigo Saez-Uribarri

Basque Foundation for Continuing Vocational Training, Bilbao, Spain

The traditional interpretation of dreams has failed to live up to expectations insofar as it is purported to obtain relevant information for clinical use. Nor does conceiving of dreams as a by-product of the random nature of neuronal processes appear to permit useful information to be obtained from them. In order to verify this point, this study ai...

Objective: To explore the attributes of dream characters related to anxiety upon awakening, and the possibility of using these attributes to construct a questionnaire administered to dreamers as an alternative to traditional methods of dream content coding via trained judges, such as those of Hall and Van de Castle and Gottschalk-Gleser. Method: A...

Introducción: La teoría evolucionista de los sueños (TES) de Antti Revonsuo, propone que la función de los sueños es simular la resolución de amenazas como a las que tuvieron que enfrentarse nuestros ancestros. Los sueños proveen de un entorno virtual seguro en el que simular amenazas y respuestas dirigidas a mejorar las probabilidades de supervive...

Objectives: Is it possible to evaluate a person’s level of anxiety based solely on their report? To answer this question, it was verified whether content exists in dreams which is related to the level of anxiety at the time when the person awakens. Methods: The Hall and Van De Castle (1966) method was used to code 132 dreams. The coding frequencies...

Aims: The scientific study of dreams is crucial for validating certain psychological theories. This necessitates a reliable quantitative approach which allows for the empirical verification of hypotheses. The best accepted and most commonly used quantitative method in scientific research on dreams is the one devised by Hall and Van De Castle (1966)...

Objectives/Introduction. The Anxiety upon Awakening Assessment Questionnaire (CEAD, as per the Spanish acronym) is an instrument applied after awakening or, at the latest, on the same day as awakening. The original version consisted of 25 items (for example: upset, startled, nervous, tense body, etc.). The possible values of the items range from 1...

Objectives/Introduction: To test whether the state of emergency caused by Covid-19 increased the number of nightmares and anxiety upon awakening. Methods: The latest awakening of two independent groups was evaluated before (n = 486, 72.8% female) and during the Covid-19 crisis (n = 616, 73.9% female). Subjects were surveyed on the same day regardin...

Objectives: The possibility that dreams constitute an evolutionary advantage for survival is currently being discussed. Dreams may provide a safe virtual environment to practise avoidance behaviours, providing evolutionarily useful implicit learning. This study therefore sought to evaluate the quantitative importance of threats to the dream self an...

Introduction: Nightmares are terrifying dreams – sometimes recurring and with drawn out plots – which wake up the sleeper. The CEAD is a useful test for evaluating nightmares which has been specifically designed to measure anxiety upon awakening. The original sample for the CEAD was composed of subjects who recalled a dream at the time of awakening...

Aims: Report length is an indicator of dream recall, cognitive activity of the dreamer and biases due to recording data in the laboratory as opposed to at home. The aim was to investigate the way in which the number of characters, aggressions and emotions affect report length. Method: Hall and Van de Castle’s normative data were taken from DreamBan...

Aim: In dream content analysis, the use of retrospective questionnaires introduces biases resulting from subjects’memories. The use of rating scales and coding systems can reduce reliability due to evaluator bias and requires the use of judges. We therefore propose the use of a new self-report instrument for evaluating the threatening content of dr...

Objectives. Controlling for report length in dream content analysis comprises a significant methodological problem. Individual differences occur in report length which can influence category coding and rating scales. Differences are also found in dream content by sex and age. The aim of this study is to determine the bias of certain variables in dr...

Introducción: Existen pocos instrumentos que permitan evaluar el contenido de los sueños. Su aplicación es útil en parasomnias, estrés postraumático y para probar modelos como el de la Teoría de Simulación de Amenazas (Revonsuo 2000). Objetivos: Obtener las ponderaciones y los estadísticos básicos de un cuestionario autoadministrado que evalúe el c...

Introducción: La evaluación de la ansiedad en el momento del despertar es un aspecto clave en trastornos del sueño tales como el de las pesadillas, los terrores nocturnos y el estrés postraumático. El Cuestionario de Evaluación de la Ansiedad al Despertar (CEAD) se centra en el momento en el que cesa la conducta de dormir. El CEAD tiene un coeficie...

RESUMEN Introducción: El objetivo del estudio es explorar las características de los personajes de los sueños relacionadas con la ansiedad en el momento del despertar, así como la posibilidad de utilizar estas características para confeccionar un cuestionario administrado a los soñantes, alternativo a los métodos tradicionales de codificación del c...

Abstract: Cerro Macareno’s tablet is a piece of fired claywith many incisions that pose puzzling chronological andfunctional queries. The information provided by the inci-sions has been studied with the purpose of elucidating theirfunction. Following a coding process, several statistical tech-niques have been used. It has been proven that incisions...

The Hudson et al Test (1983) has demonstrated an adequate interna1 consistency (Alpha = 0.81) as well as its validity for measuring sexual attitudes. This is due to the possibility of finding - by means of a canonical factorial analysis - three significant functions with a confidente leve1 of 95%. These functions are entirely related, with the prob...

Las políticas de mínimos garantizados tienen como objetivo principal establecer un último nivel de seguridad para las personas que carecen de ingresos o que, disponiendo de recursos procedentes de alguna actividad laboral, de la gestión de su patrimonio y/o de prestaciones y derechos sociales, no consiguen alcanzar el nivel mínimo de ingresos fijad...

A través del análisis de más de 700 cuestionarios, se ha evaluado el grado de satisfacción de los asistentes a las actividades formativas subvencionadas por el Gobierno Vasco en el campo de los Servicios Sociales. Del estudio de las respuestas a los cuestionarios se ha podido además establecer el perfil de los asistentes a los cursos, obteniéndose...

A total of 236 awakenings corresponding to 169 individuals have been analysed by means of a 31-item questionnaire. It has been demonstrated that anxiety upon awakening is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be assessed with an adequate factor validity (KMO = .906). The internal structure of the questionnaire used in this study shows the need of...

Cerro Macareno’s tablet is a piece of fired clay with many incisions that pose puzzling chronological and functional queries. The information provided by the incisions has been studied with the purpose of elucidating their function. Following a coding process, several statistical techniqueshave been used. It has been proven that incisions are not r...

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