Dreams about the COVID-19 pandemic were collected from 2,888 dreamers via an online survey and compared to normative dreams from an earlier period A total of 9 categories of emotions and body concerns from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) were utilized As predicted by the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, women showed significantly lower positive emotions in their dreams and higher rates of negative emotions, anxiety, sadness, anger, body content, references to biological processes, health, and death For male respondents, the predicted higher score for the LIWC variable health was the only one significant at as high a level as for women LIWC positive emotions, negative emotions, anxiety, and death were elevated in the predicted direction at lower significance levels than the effects for women The variables anger, sadness, and body did not differ for men between the pandemic dreams and the normative sample Results are discussed in terms of the continuity hypothesis both for distress and specific concerns of both groups and in light of the higher rate of many stressors for women versus men during the pandemic

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关于 COVID-19 的梦想与规范的梦想：性别趋势。

通过在线调查从 2,888 名做梦者那里收集了有关 COVID-19 大流行的梦境，并将其与早期的规范梦境进行了比较 总共使用了语言调查和字数统计 (LIWC) 中的 9 类情绪和身体问题 正如预测的那样根据做梦的连续性假设，女性在梦中表现出的积极情绪明显较低，而消极情绪、焦虑、悲伤、愤怒、身体内容、对生物过程、健康和死亡的提及率更高 对于男性受访者来说，预测的更高得分LIWC 变量健康是唯一一个在与女性一样高的水平上显着的变量 LIWC 积极情绪、消极情绪、焦虑和死亡在预测的方向上以低于女性影响的显着性水平升高 变量愤怒、悲伤、大流行的梦境和规范样本之间男性的身体和身体没有差异 根据连续性假设讨论了两个群体的痛苦和具体问题，并考虑到大流行期间女性与男性相比，许多压力源的发生率更高