Work-life balance in dreams: frequency and emotional tone of work-related and hobby-related dreams
As dreams reflect waking life, the so-called continuity hypothesis of dreaming, the literature showing that work-related stress affects dreams negatively is very plausible. As in waking life, hobbies are an important component in the work-life balance. In the present study, the work-life balance in...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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April 2023
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Journal of sleep research
Year: 2023, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-8 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2869 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jsr.13674 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13674 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsr.13674 
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| Author Notes: | Michael Schredl, Judith Coors, Lilian Marie Anderson, Lea Katharina Kahlert, Celine Sophie Kumpf |
| Summary: | As dreams reflect waking life, the so-called continuity hypothesis of dreaming, the literature showing that work-related stress affects dreams negatively is very plausible. As in waking life, hobbies are an important component in the work-life balance. In the present study, the work-life balance in dreams was studied. Overall, 1695 persons (960 women, 735 men; mean age: 53.84 ± 13.99 years) participated in an online survey entitled “Everyday life and dreams”. The data collected refer to the pre-pandemic period. The findings indicate that hobby-related dreams are more frequent in persons who often engage in their hobbies, supporting the notion of a thematic continuity. As expected, the emotional tone of hobby-related dreams was more positive compared with dreams in general and work-related dreams in particular. Interestingly, the emotional valence of hobby-related dreams was related to the valence of general emotionality towards work in waking life, supporting the idea of an emotional continuity between waking and dreaming. The work-life balance in dreams could be defined as the difference of the percentages of work-related and hobby-related dreams; it is linked to work-related stress and the hobby frequency, factors similar to those that shift the work-life balance in waking life toward the “work” end of the spectrum. |
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| Item Description: | Erstmals online veröffentlicht: 17. Juni 2022 Gesehen am 23.07.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1365-2869 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jsr.13674 |