What are sleep-related experiences? Associations with transliminality, psychological distress, and life stress

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 891-904

  Soffer Dudek, Nirit ^a   Shahar, Golan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altered consciousness; Dissociation; Life stress; Longitudinal design; Psychopathology; Sleep related experiences; Transliminality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE STRESS; MALE; SLEEP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; CHILD ABUSE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARCOLEPSY; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SLEEP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449125989     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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