Gender Specific Ego Functioning in the Manifest Dream Content of College Students

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1989
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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This study investigated differences in male and female ego functioning as revealed in manifest dream content. A total of 29 subjects, 14 male and 15 female, from Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges participated in the study. Experimenters hypothesized that there would be gender differences in ego functioning based on distinct preoedipal experiences. A total of 174 dreams, 107 female and 67 male, were coded. The design was a between subjects study with two groups, male and female. A total of 85 different var1ables were measured including achievement, affiliation and power motivation. The variables measured information from the categories central figure, conflict, characters, settings, affect, m isee11aneous, and motivation themes. The results of the study ind1cated that male and female egos function differently as expressed in the manifest dream content. These findings conform to the 1967 study of male and female ego styles in manifest dream content by Charles Brooks Brenneis.
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