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To determine whether personality in dreams exhibits a compensatory or a continuous relationship with waking personality, one dream from each of 100 undergraduate women was analysed with an extraversion scale derived from the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The dream extraversion scores were correlated with the subjects' corresponding extraversion score on Eysenck's inventory. The over-all coefficient (.14) was nonsignificant; however, when subjects were divided into high and low neuroticism groups, the low scorers' r was negative and significant (-.29) but that of the high scorers was not (.12). The results suggest that individual differences in neuroticism should be taken into account for further explorations of compensatory relationships between waking and dreaming.

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Continuity or Compensation between Waking and Dreaming: An Exploration Using the Eysenck Personality Inventory

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