{"id":342,"date":"2023-10-16T22:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2025-06-21T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:48:30","slug":"college-students-beliefs-about-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/college-students-beliefs-about-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students&#8217; Beliefs about Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By Brad Bell<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Many people may interpret their dreams. \u00a0There are a number of beliefs or theories concerning the meaning of dreams. \u00a0\u00a0Robbins and Tanck (1991) conducted research concerning college students&#8217; beliefs or theories about dreams. \u00a0In their follow-up study involving 86 undergraduate students, the students were provided with eight statements reflecting beliefs about dreams. \u00a0The view of dreams that had the highest endorsement (91%) was the idea that dreams are linked to one&#8217;s anxieties and fears. \u00a0The view of dreams that had the second highest endorsement (88%) was the idea that dreams are related to events of the recent past or events of the previous day. \u00a0The view of dreams with the third highest endorsement (82%) was the theory that dreams reflect ideas that are brought forth from the unconscious. \u00a0These findings suggest that a large percentage of college students have some similar views concerning the nature or meaning of dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>&nbsp;References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robbins, P.R., &amp; Tanck, R. H. (1991). \u00a0Theories of dreams held by American college students. \u00a0The Journal of Social Psychology, 131, 143-145.<strong><br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By Brad Bell \u00a0Many people may interpret their dreams. \u00a0There are a number of beliefs or theories concerning the meaning of dreams. \u00a0\u00a0Robbins and Tanck (1991) conducted research concerning college students&#8217; beliefs or theories about dreams. \u00a0In their follow-up study involving 86 undergraduate students, the students were provided with eight statements reflecting beliefs about dreams. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/college-students-beliefs-about-dreams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;College Students&#8217; Beliefs about Dreams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}