The consistency and continuity hypotheses revisited through the dreams of women at two periods of their lives

The purpose of the present longitudinal study was to determine the extent of consistency in dream content at two periods of adulthood as well as continuity with the psychosocial development of the dreamers. Twenty-one women kept a dream diary for a few weeks at intervals of 10, 15 or 17 years. ANOVAs for repeated measures were performed on the mean frequencies per dreamer of different dream elements or ratios of these elements. No significant changes were found. Pearson moment correlations yielded high and significant internal consistency for friendly and aggressive interactions. None of the others were significant. Ratios and indices calculated on subclasses of characters, settings, interactions and emotions revealed significant deviations from female norms, at one or the other of the phases. These different findings are discussed within the theoretical perspective of continuity with developmental stages in women's lives

Analysis of variance · Consistency (knowledge bases · Content (measure theory · Developmental psychology · Dream · Internal consistency · Longitudinal study · Perspective (graphical · Psychometrics · Psychosocial · Repeated measures design · Statistics · Child Therapy and Development · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Mathematics · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology · Social Psychology

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