Observation And Aggression Analysis

This article is about collecting dream data, and proving whether or not their hypothesis was correct or not. Their hypothesis is that aggression levels would vary substantially from the content of the nightmare, reoccurring and nonrecurring, and also with people experiencing unpleasant dreams. In the experiment they clearly defined what a nightmare is, so there was not any confusion. When collecting the data from the participants, the researchers made the answers anonymous, to protect the participants. One of the questions was for the participants to write down their reoccurring nightmare. The researchers then only chose the participants if the description was over twenty-five words. They defined reoccurring as having the same nightmare more than once in a month. The researchers clarified an interaction aggression scale, which they used to separate different key components of the aggression. They used a certain anxiety scale that measured 6 subsections of anxiety based on the participants’ intensity level.
The nature of this articles research methods were surveys. With the surveys …show more content…
These researchers more wanted to know why they happened, and why certain dreams were reoccurring or not. They concluded that depending on which the dreams were reoccurring, nonrecurring, or unpleasant dreams. They could separate them by the different levels of aggression in the dream, and aggression toward the individual dreaming. They demonstrated that the anxiety levels in the participants were higher in individuals who reported reoccurring nightmares, in relation to nonrecurring nightmare participants. Aggression was higher in reoccurring dreams then nonrecurring dreams. In unpleasant dreams aggression was extremely low. This study’s findings are beneficial to the study of dreams, and to help us understand more about our