Developmental Aspects of Aging in Women

Brenneis, C. Brooks

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1975.01760220041005

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“…The relatively low occurrence of Anger-Rage agrees with a finding reported by Brenneis (1975), who, in a comparative study of dreams in women from 16 yr. of age to 85 yr., found a decrease in concerns about aggression. All of the four infrequently used emotions were unpleasant ones.…”

Section: Enjoyment-joy Surprise-startle Distress-anguish Other Interesupporting

confidence: 91%

Emotional Content of Dreams Recalled by Elderly Women

Howe

Blick

1983

Percept Mot Skills

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At the end of 6 wk., 37 elderly women turned in 145 dream narratives and accompanying emotions. Approximately two emotions were used to describe each dream; enjoyment, surprise, distress, confusion, interest, and fear accounted for 86% of all dream emotions. The emotions of disgust, anger, shame, and contempt were infrequently reported by these elderly persons. The dreams associated with the retirement life style of the elderly exhibited pleasant as well as unpleasant emotions.

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Section: Enjoyment-joy Surprise-startle Distress-anguish Other Interesupporting

confidence: 91%

Emotional Content of Dreams Recalled by Elderly Women

Howe

Blick

1983

Percept Mot Skills

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“…Among the currently unmarried, those who were previously married are the most likely to experience loneliness. A greater proportion of women than of men report loneliness; the differences are not large, but they are consistent over various demographic groupings (Brenneis, 1975;Schmitt and Kurdak, 1985;Ryan and Patterson, 1987;Newmann, 1988;Tornstam, 1992).…”

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A review of loneliness concepts, with particular reference to old age

Weeks

1994

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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“…Mood terms: the emotions expressed 5. Implements: inanimate materials used in the action of the dream There is also considerable overlap with Brenneis's (1967Brenneis's ( , 1970Brenneis's ( , 1975 "34 Dimensions in Ego Styles," summarized in Winget and Kramer (1979:96-97). We present the first 11 questions on this scale to give readers a flavor:…”

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“…After noting the differences in the length of reports, Kramer et al (1971:89) concluded that "the striking feature that emerges is how similar the dream content of the two samples turns out to be." Brenneis (1975) compared 148 dream reports from 38 college women ages 18 to 26 (mean age: 20.5) with 185 reports from 43 women ages 40 to 86 (mean age: 56.8). The dreams of the older women were obtained from friends of the author and friends of friends (a "snowball" sample).…”

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confidence: 99%

Finding Meaning in Dreams

Domhoff

1996

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10987654321All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher vii viii Preface be linked with studies of traumatic dreams and recurrent dreams to suggest there is a "repetition dimension" in dreams that tends to be overlooked because most theorists focus on one dream at a time. I also claim that studies of relaxed waking cognition, such as daydreams and passing thoughts, allow us to theorize about dreams on the basis of new ideas in cognitive psychology. At the most general level, dreams reveal our self-conceptions and our emotional preoccupations, and they tend to be more continuous with our waking thoughts and concerns than we generally realize.Both the accuracy and readability of this book were improved immeasurably thanks to an extremely careful and thoughtful reading of the first draft by one of the leading experts on dream content, Deirdre Barrett of Harvard University Medical School. I am deeply grateful for her time and effort. I also want to thank David Foulkes, the preeminent laboratory investigator of dreams for the past 30 years, for his very helpful and reassuring substantive comments on the second draft of the manuscript, and Richard L. Zweigenhaft, my longtime co-author on social psychology topics, for his frank and useful editorial suggestions on the second draft. My thanks, also, to my colleague Dane Archer in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for advice on statistical questions, and to Mark Mizruchi of the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan for his important corrections to my statistical appendix. Further thanks go to my colleague Daniel Guevara of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for his thoughtful comments on what philosophers say about the meaning of "meaning."The help of one of my former students, Adam Schneider, was essential to me in the final stages of the manuscript. He mastered the coding system and did creative work on three final analyses that added greatly to the argument. He utilized his outstanding computer skills to improve the accuracy of the tables and to check many previous calculations. He also caught many errors in his careful proofreading of the manuscript.

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Developmental Aspects of Aging in Women

Cited by 33 publications

References 7 publications

Emotional Content of Dreams Recalled by Elderly Women

Emotional Content of Dreams Recalled by Elderly Women

A review of loneliness concepts, with particular reference to old age

Finding Meaning in Dreams

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