Several different beliefs about the importance of dreams have been recorded from ancient times to the present. In ancient Iranian culture, dreams had a special importance. Similarly, in modern times, Iranians pay much attention to their dreams. The present questionnaire study of several beliefs about dreams describes the beliefs of 486 Iranian university students in Tehran (men = 253; women = 233) from the Tarbiat Modares and Allameh Tabatabai University about their dreams through administering of the My Beliefs About Dream Questionnaire (MBDQ). The two main objectives of the research were to examine the psychometric properties of the MBDQ and to describe the dream beliefs of Iranian college students. Factor analysis of the MBDQ yielded a six-factor solution. In general, the present investigation revealed moderate to high construct validity and reliability of the MBDQ. A wide range of variation in dream beliefs was found among Iranian college students, with religious beliefs having much influence upon them.

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伊朗人对梦想的信念：发展和验证我对梦想的信念问卷。

从古至今，关于梦的重要性的几种不同信仰都有记载。在古代伊朗文化中，梦有着特殊的重要性。同样，在现代，伊朗人非常重视他们的梦想。目前对几种关于梦想的信念的问卷研究描述了来自 Tarbiat Modares 大学和 Allameh Tabatabai 大学的 486 名在德黑兰的伊朗大学生（男性 = 253；女性 = 233）通过管理我的梦想问卷调查（MBDQ）对他们的梦想的信念）。研究的两个主要目标是检查 MBDQ 的心理测量特性和描述伊朗大学生的梦想信念。MBDQ 的因子分析产生了六因子解决方案。一般来说，目前的调查显示 MBDQ 具有中到高的结构效度和信度。伊朗大学生的梦想信仰存在很大差异，宗教信仰对他们影响很大。