Boundary Questionnaire results in the mentally healthy elderly

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ID3900857
AutoresArthur T Funkhouser, Arthur Funkhouser, Othmar Würmle, Claude Cornu, Claude M Cornu, Marcel Bahro
Ano2001
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas83-88
Data de publicação2001-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDreaming (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1053-0797 • E-ISSN: 1573-3351
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1023/a:1009432520849
OpenAlexW1975599619
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas7

The Hartmann Boundary Questionnaire was administered twice, with six months in between, to 61 Swiss subjects over 60 years of age taking part in an investigation into the effects of dream-telling on five variables: well-being, sleep quality, sleep duration, dream recall and dream tone. In addition, dream epoch, i.e., the age of life of the dreamer as perceived in the dream, was recorded for those who told dreams. In addition to this study group in which the members told dreams there were two control groups. Those in the first control group were asked about well-being and sleep quality but not about dreams or dreaming, while those in the second control group were additionally asked how many dreams they had retained, how frequently they had occurred and about the dream tone (pleasant/unpleasant). All study participants were given the Hartmann Boundary Questionnaire at the beginning (pre-test) and again at the end of the six month study period (post-test). The retest reliability was high (r = 0.872 for the whole sample). We report here the relationships obtained between the questionnaire scores and age, group membership, gender and the number of dreams that were retained over a 26 week testing period. No significant correlations were found for age, group membership or dream recall. There was, however, a small, significant boundary score difference between women and men for the pre-test, indicating thinner boundaries for women, but this difference was no longer significant in the post-test

Boundary (topology · Developmental psychology · Psychiatry · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Psychology · Sleep and related disorders · Sleep and Wakefulness Research · Clinical Psychology