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The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety
Objective: Frequent nightmare behavior or deep nightmare experiences may harm the physical and mental health and performance of athletes. This study explores the nightmare experiences of athletes, and includes non-athletes with similar experiences for comparison. Methods: The Nightmare Experience Qu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36232198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912900 |
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author | Gan, Youteng Wang, Ruohang Li, Jiangang Wang, Xueyu Fan, Hongying |
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description | Objective: Frequent nightmare behavior or deep nightmare experiences may harm the physical and mental health and performance of athletes. This study explores the nightmare experiences of athletes, and includes non-athletes with similar experiences for comparison. Methods: The Nightmare Experience Questionnaire (NEQ); Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire, Shortened Form (ZKA-PQ/SF); and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) were used. The subjects were 187 athletes (mean age = 20.44 years, SD = 0.85; 91 females, 96 males) and 90 non-athletes (mean age = 20.34 years, SD = 1.65; 52 females, 38 males) who reported having nightmares. Results: A total of 87 athletes (46.5%) reported having nightmare experiences. The athlete nightmare group scored significantly higher in neuroticism than the non-nightmare group, and their anxiety scores were significantly higher than those of non-athletes, who scored higher in aggressiveness, neuroticism, and sensation seeking. Moreover, anxiety, neuroticism, and sensation seeking positively predicted athletes’ nightmare experiences. Conclusions: Personality traits and anxiety levels can be effectively applied to predict athletes’ nightmare experiences. |
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spelling | pubmed-95661632022-10-15 The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety Gan, Youteng Wang, Ruohang Li, Jiangang Wang, Xueyu Fan, Hongying Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Objective: Frequent nightmare behavior or deep nightmare experiences may harm the physical and mental health and performance of athletes. This study explores the nightmare experiences of athletes, and includes non-athletes with similar experiences for comparison. Methods: The Nightmare Experience Questionnaire (NEQ); Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire, Shortened Form (ZKA-PQ/SF); and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) were used. The subjects were 187 athletes (mean age = 20.44 years, SD = 0.85; 91 females, 96 males) and 90 non-athletes (mean age = 20.34 years, SD = 1.65; 52 females, 38 males) who reported having nightmares. Results: A total of 87 athletes (46.5%) reported having nightmare experiences. The athlete nightmare group scored significantly higher in neuroticism than the non-nightmare group, and their anxiety scores were significantly higher than those of non-athletes, who scored higher in aggressiveness, neuroticism, and sensation seeking. Moreover, anxiety, neuroticism, and sensation seeking positively predicted athletes’ nightmare experiences. Conclusions: Personality traits and anxiety levels can be effectively applied to predict athletes’ nightmare experiences. MDPI 2022-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9566163/ /pubmed/36232198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912900 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gan, Youteng Wang, Ruohang Li, Jiangang Wang, Xueyu Fan, Hongying The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety |
title | The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety |
title_full | The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety |
title_fullStr | The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety |
title_short | The Relationship between Nightmare Experience and Athletes’ Personality Traits and Anxiety |
title_sort | relationship between nightmare experience and athletes’ personality traits and anxiety |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36232198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912900 |
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