Daydreaming and symptom patterns of psychiatric patients: A factor analytic study.

Studied the daydream activity of psychiatric patients, particularly the relation between symptom patterns and daydreaming styles. 113 male psychiatric patients responded to a daydream questionnaire derived from the Imaginal Processes Inventory. Interviewers rated patients on the presence and severity of hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, depression, and other symptoms. Little relation was evidenced, in general, between daydream styles and particular symptom pictures. Patients with psychotic symptomatology could not be distinguished from others on the basis of daydream style. Relations were observed, however, between daydreaming subscales and ratings of depression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)