Working mothers versus homemakers: Do dreams reflect the changing roles of women?

Lortie‐Lussier, Monique; Schwäb, Christine; Koninck, Joseph De

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“…The observations may reflect social evolution, as women have moved from being predominantly homemakers to having a more equal role in the workforce (Giele & Stebbins, 2003) and may be dreaming of tasks associated with these new responsibilities. Indeed, dreams were found to reflect these changing social roles of women (Lortie-Lussier et al, 1985), supporting the continuity hypothesis (Hall & Nordby, 1972). However, still overall, very few differences exist between American and Canadian young adults reflecting waking similarities in economy, behaviors, values, media, and daily life (Grab & Curtis, 2010;Waugh, 2011).…”

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Dreams of Canadian Students

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Lortie‐Lussier

Wong

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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A total of 600 dream reports were collected from 300 Canadian university students, 150 female and 150 male, and their content analyzed with the Hall and Van de Castle (1966) system of categories. The main dream content categories were characters, aggressive and friendly interactions, positive and negative emotions, and dream outcomes. The main purpose of the analysis was to provide normative data for a large sample of young Canadians to determine (a) whether negative elements prevail over positive ones, as assumed by the threat simulation theory and (b) whether dream gender differences are consistent with differences in waking life, in accordance with the continuity hypothesis. Overall, findings support both theories. The final objective was to compare the Canadian data, relative to gender differences, with normative data established in 1966 with the original American sample. Findings for males and females and gender differences remain consistent with the American normative data for most categories despite a 50 years interval. Similarities in Canadian and American dream content reflect similarities between the respective cultures. They also attest to fundamental structural dimensions of dream content that transcend cultures. Other types of content analysis relative to themes, for instance, might be appropriate to highlight cultural differences.

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Dreams of Canadian Students

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“…In the first study, however, Lortie-Lussier et al, (1985:1015 found only one statistically significant difference between homemakers and wage-earning women out of 10 comparisons. This comparison showed more negative emotions in the dream reports of the wage earners.…”

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“…For example, findings on various Hall/ Van de Castle scales for 15 college-educated French-Canadian housewives (Lortie-Lussier et al, 1985:1016 and 18 single, French-Canadian undergraduates ages 18 to 22 (Rinfret et al, 1991:187) are compared with the American female norms in Table 6.5.…”

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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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“…In 1966, Hall and Van de Castle published The Content Analysis of Dreams, which outlines a thorough coding system with which they investigated 1,000 dreams collected from 200 undergraduates from Case Western Reserve University and Baldwin Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio, between 1947 and1952. Since that time, the Hall-Van de Castle system has been used to compare groups of various ages, cultural backgrounds, and diagnostic categories, as well as genders (e.g., Coté, Lortie-Lussier, Roy, & De Koninck, 1996;Kane, Mellen, Patten, & Samano, 1993;Krippner, Lenz, Barksdale, & Davidson, 1974;Krippner, Posner, Pomerance, Barksdale, & Fischer, 1974;Krippner, Winkler, Rochlen, & Yashar 1998;Lortie-Lussier, Schwab, & De Koninck, 1985;Rubinstein & Krippner, 1991;Soper, Rosenthal, & Milford, 1994). Reliability, by the method of common agreement, ranges from .60 to .90 for the various categories, a range suitable for most research studies; Van de Castle (1969) has addressed validity concerns.…”

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Gender Differences in a Content Analysis Study of 608 Dream Reports From Research Participants in the United States

Krippner

Weinhold

2002

soc behav pers

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This investigation asked the question: "Are there significant content differences between male and female dream reports obtained in the United States?" Most of the 608 research participants provided dream reports (one per person) in response to a request from the senior author at dream seminars he gave between 1990 and 1996; the other dream reports were provided by friends and acquaintances of seminar participants. The total sample included 330 female and 278 male dream reports. Dreams were coded according to Hall-Van de Castle criteria on 53 categories, subcategories, and indices. The use of Cohen's h-statistic revealed several gender differences, most of which resembled those found by previous researchers.Since ancient times, dreams have been the focus of attention by both societies and individuals. They have been considered a means to foretell future events, as a means to communicate with spirits and deities, and as a way to make crucial SOCIAL

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Working mothers versus homemakers: Do dreams reflect the changing roles of women?

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Gender Differences in a Content Analysis Study of 608 Dream Reports From Research Participants in the United States

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