Wang Jiaxi, Fu Haote, Feng Xiaoling, Shen Heyong
Research Center for Embodied Cognition, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
PLoS One. 2025 Feb 25;20(2):e0318661. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0318661. eCollection 2025.
In this study, we explored whether nightmare distress mediated the correlation between autobiographical memory specificity and depression. 112 participants provided their most recent dreams that happened within one month, and finished some scales that measured depression, autobiographical memory specificity, and nightmare distress. In line with our hypothesis, nightmare distress was the mediator that played a role in the relationship between autobiographical memory specificity and depression. In addition, we found that both nightmare distress and autobiographical memory specificity were correlated with the impact of a dream on one's life story. By contrast, contrary to our hypothesis, we did not find any correlation between autobiographical memory specificity, or nightmare distress, and dream bizarreness. Potential implications from these results were discussed.
在本研究中，我们探究了噩梦困扰是否介导了自传体记忆特异性与抑郁之间的关联。112名参与者提供了他们在一个月内做的最近的梦，并完成了一些测量抑郁、自传体记忆特异性和噩梦困扰的量表。与我们的假设一致，噩梦困扰是在自传体记忆特异性与抑郁之间的关系中起作用的中介变量。此外，我们发现噩梦困扰和自传体记忆特异性都与一个梦对个人生活故事的影响相关。相比之下，与我们的假设相反，我们没有发现自传体记忆特异性或噩梦困扰与梦的离奇程度之间存在任何关联。我们讨论了这些结果的潜在意义。
