Normative Findings on American College Students

Abstract

The findings presented in this chapter are based on studies of American college students over a 45-year period. Although such findings may seem limited because most students come from a narrow age range and a small portion of the socioeconomic ladder, this is in fact the greatest strength of the findings because they are not attenuated by other variables. They provide an anchor point for investigations of the relationship of dream content to such factors as age, ethnicity, race, class, nationality, and individual differences.