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The relationship between the self-reports of the occurrence of nightmare dreams and a number of personality characteristics was examined for a hospitalized sample. Frequent nightmare sufferers when compared with their less frequent and non-nightmare counterparts demonstrated greater manifest anxiety, lower ego-strength, heightened conscious concerns about death, and significantly more sleep disturbances. There also was a low positive relationship between generalized fears and reported nightmare frequency. The results were interpreted as reflecting an elevated degree of pathology on the part of the frequent nightmare S. Caution was exercised in restricting the conclusions of the present study only to the particular type of population under evaluation
Michel Hersen (Thu,) studied this question.