Evaluating the awakening criterion in the definition of nightmares: How certain are people in judging whether a nightmare woke them up?

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-124

  Blagrove, Mark ^a   Haywood, Suzanne ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Awakening; Definition; Nightmares

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NIGHTMARE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; WAKEFULNESS; WELLBEING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33646729886     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2006.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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