title: Mindfulness and dream quality: the inverse relationship between mindfulness and negative dream affect.
abstract: The aim of the study was to examine the relationship of mindfulness to the emotional quality of dreaming. In our questionnaire-based study, comprising the data of 587 undergraduate students we examined the association between trait anxiety, perceived stress, trait mindfulness, negative dream affect and dream anxiety. Our results indicate that mindfulness is inversely related to disturbed dreaming and predicts less severe dream disturbances after controlling for trait anxiety. Moreover, the results of the applied hierarchical regression analysis suggest that mindfulness is associated with reduced dream anxiety by moderating the extent of waking anxiety. Our findings extend previous research relating mindfulness, emotional regulation and sleep quality to the domain of dream research. We suggest that mindfulness is a possible protective factor against dream disturbances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary. petersimor@gmail.com
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simor
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Köteles
authors.forename: Piroska
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sándor
authors.forename: Zsolt
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Petke
authors.forename: Róbert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bódizs
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001364:Awareness; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult