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What Cannot Kill You Will Make You Stronger – Traumatization, Dreaming, And Performance In Public Examinations
Calvin Kai-Ching Yu
Some evidence has suggested that performance in examinations is facilitated by dreaming
but is hampered by traumatization. This notion runs counter to the well-established
evidence for the positive association between dreaming and traumatization. Therefore,
the study presented here examined the extent to which the intensities of various types of
traumatic and dream experiences could predict public examination outcomes while taking
sex and mental health factors into consideration. The sample contained 564 Hong Kong
upper secondary school graduates, whose academic performance was measured by the
results of two public examinations for the admission to local upper secondary schools
and universities. Participants’ dream characteristics, severity of traumatic experiences,
and psychopathological symptoms were assessed using the Dream Intensity Scale, Dream
Motif Scale, Traumatic Experiences Checklist, and Ko’s Mental Health Questionnaire,
respectively. Overall, the weight of evidence was in favor of the theory that both dreaming
and traumatization may enhance the examination performance of those students who are
relatively good achievers.
Keywords: Dream experiences, mental health, pathological personality, public examination
performance, trauma |
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