Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Centre de Recherche du CHU Ste-Justine, Bureau B17.107; 3175 Chemin Côte Ste-Catherine, H3T 1C5, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2024 Feb;52(2):277-291. doi: 10.1007/s10802-023-01109-1. Epub 2023 Aug 17.
Although disturbing dreams are prevalent in youth and are associated with psychopathology, little is known about their developmental course and risk factors. We aimed to examine the association between early social environment and subsequent disturbing dream frequency across adolescence as moderated by early negative emotionality. Measures of children's early social environment and negative emotionality were collected from the mothers of 410 children (5-42 months old) and measures of disturbing dream frequency directly from the children (13-18 years old). Preliminary steps identified subgroups of families with distinct profiles of social environment using latent variable mixture modeling, and captured changes in disturbing dream frequency using latent growth modeling. Regression and moderation analyses were conducted to test the study objectives. Results showed that the diverse family patterns were best captured by two profiles reflecting adverse and positive social environments and that overall disturbing dream frequency decreased during adolescence. Moderation analyses showed that when early negative emotionality was higher, DD frequency was not only more elevated in an adverse environment, but lower in a positive environment. These results indicate that the development of disturbing dreams is most strongly associated with a combination of individual and environment factors. Our study adds to the literature by refining our conception of individual traits and disturbing dream development and has implications for the prevention of bad dreams, nightmares, and associated psychopathologies.
尽管在青少年中普遍存在令人不安的梦境，并且与精神病理学有关，但对于它们的发展过程和风险因素知之甚少。我们旨在研究青少年时期早期社会环境与随后的令人不安的梦境频率之间的关联，这种关联受到早期负性情绪的调节。通过对 410 名儿童（5-42 个月大）的母亲进行儿童早期社会环境和负性情绪的测量，以及直接对儿童进行令人不安的梦境频率的测量，来实现研究目标。初步步骤使用潜在变量混合建模识别了具有不同社会环境特征的家庭亚组，并使用潜在增长建模来捕捉令人不安的梦境频率的变化。进行回归和调节分析以检验研究目标。结果表明，使用反映不利和有利社会环境的两个特征来更好地捕捉家庭的多样性模式，并且在青少年时期整体上令人不安的梦境频率会降低。调节分析表明，当早期负性情绪较高时，DD 频率不仅在不利环境中升高，而且在有利环境中降低。这些结果表明，令人不安的梦境的发展与个体和环境因素的组合密切相关。我们的研究通过细化个体特征和令人不安的梦境发展的概念，为预防噩梦、梦魇和相关精神病理学提供了依据。
