Empathy and frequency of answers to questions about dreams after September 11th.
The investigators sought to examine correlations for 31 men and women, counseling graduate students and residents of the San Francisco Bay Area and their relation to the attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001. Empathy and traumatic dream reports have been examined in studies primarily on relations between therapists and clients. Studies of the effects of traumatic events on empathy and on dreams have been minimal. It was hypothesized that highly empathic individuals might have reacted differently to these events than less empathic subjects. Using the KJP Dream Inventory and the Emotional Empathy Scale, rated empathy correlated significantly with reported frequency of dream occurrence (.39), frequency of repetitive traumatic dreaming (.38), and the frequency of dream discontentedness (.37).
Kroth
Jerry
J
Graduate Division of Counseling Psychology and Education, Santa Clara University, CA 95053, USA.
Bush
Stephanie
S
Frost
Jennifer
J
Paez
Asceneth
A
Prakash
Ronika
R
Raft
May
M
D000328:Adult; D004325:Dreams; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D023481:Terrorism