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Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation

There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing. However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep—also serves an affect regulation function. Here, we investigated the within-person relationship between negative affect exp...

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Autores principales: Sikka, Pilleriin, Engelbrektsson, Hilda, Zhang, Jinxiao, Gross, James J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9626956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36338877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.981289
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author Sikka, Pilleriin
Engelbrektsson, Hilda
Zhang, Jinxiao
Gross, James J.
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description There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing. However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep—also serves an affect regulation function. Here, we investigated the within-person relationship between negative affect experienced in dreams and next-day waking affect level, affect reactivity, and affect regulation. For 5 days, 40 participants reported their dreams and rated their dream affect and post-sleep waking affect level upon morning awakening. Thereafter, they performed an affect reactivity and regulation task which involved viewing neutral and negative pictures with the instruction either to simply view the pictures or to down-regulate the affect evoked by these pictures. Multilevel regression analyses showed that the more negative affect people experienced in their dreams at night, the more negative affect and the less positive affect they reported the next morning. However, negative dream affect was associated neither with affect reactivity to the pictures nor with the ability to down-regulate negative affect in response to these pictures. In fact, Bayesian analyses favored the null hypotheses. These findings fail to provide support for the affect regulation function of dreaming and, instead, speak for affective continuity between dreaming and post-sleep wakefulness.
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spelling pubmed-96269562022-11-03 Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation Sikka, Pilleriin Engelbrektsson, Hilda Zhang, Jinxiao Gross, James J. Front Behav Neurosci Behavioral Neuroscience There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing. However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep—also serves an affect regulation function. Here, we investigated the within-person relationship between negative affect experienced in dreams and next-day waking affect level, affect reactivity, and affect regulation. For 5 days, 40 participants reported their dreams and rated their dream affect and post-sleep waking affect level upon morning awakening. Thereafter, they performed an affect reactivity and regulation task which involved viewing neutral and negative pictures with the instruction either to simply view the pictures or to down-regulate the affect evoked by these pictures. Multilevel regression analyses showed that the more negative affect people experienced in their dreams at night, the more negative affect and the less positive affect they reported the next morning. However, negative dream affect was associated neither with affect reactivity to the pictures nor with the ability to down-regulate negative affect in response to these pictures. In fact, Bayesian analyses favored the null hypotheses. These findings fail to provide support for the affect regulation function of dreaming and, instead, speak for affective continuity between dreaming and post-sleep wakefulness. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9626956/ /pubmed/36338877 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.981289 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sikka, Engelbrektsson, Zhang and Gross. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zhang, Jinxiao
Gross, James J.
Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
title Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
title_full Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
title_fullStr Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
title_full_unstemmed Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
title_short Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
title_sort negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation
topic Behavioral Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9626956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36338877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.981289
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