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Video game play as nightmare protection: a preliminary inquiry with military gamers

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dc.contributor.authorGackenbach, Jayne
dc.contributor.authorEllerman, Evelyn
dc.contributor.authorHall, Christie
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-13
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-27T01:13:07Z
dc.date.available2022-05-27T01:13:07Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractSoldiers who play video games to varying degrees were solicited to fill out a survey on dreams and gaming. A prescreening filtered out those who were not soldiers, who did not game and who were suffering from various psychological problems in the last six months. The remaining soldiers filled out these inventories; general and military demographics, history of video game play, Emotional Reactivity and Numbing Scale (ERNS), and a Trauma Inventory. They were then asked to provide two dreams, one recent and one that was impactful from their military service. Following the military dream they filled out Impactful Dreams Questionnaire (IDQ) about that dream only. Dream content analysis was conducted using threat simulation, war content and lucid/control/gaming content. High and low end frequency gamer groups were identified and compared on these dream content scales. Because the nightmare literature shows that affect load and distress are predictors of nightmare suffering. ERNS and Trauma history were covariates in the ANCOVA’s on gamer group x dream type. It was found that the high end gaming group exhibited less threat and war content in their military dreams than the low end group.
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dc.identifier.citationGackenbach, J., Ellerman, E., & Hall, C. (2011). Video game play as nightmare protection: A preliminary inquiry with military gamers. Dreaming, 21(4), 221-245. doi:10.1037/a0024972
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/a0024972
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/103
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectnightmares
dc.subjectvideo games
dc.subjectthreat simulation
dc.subjectmilitary
dc.subjectwar
dc.subjectdreams
dc.titleVideo game play as nightmare protection: a preliminary inquiry with military gamersen
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