Imaginary Companion Case Study

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There wasn’t enough information to determine other ethnic groups. The items that were measured were evaluated on a 5-pt. scale, 1=strongly disagree to 5=stronger agree and the measurements of internal consistency are reported using alpha coefficients. The imagery used was determined by using 10 items adapted the Habitual Use of Imagery and the Imagination factors of Paivio’s Individual Differences Questionnaire. The Habitual Use factor included items like “I often use mental images or pictures to help me remember things,” and the Imagination factor included items such as “My powers of imagination are higher than average.” The alpha coefficient for the two factors together was .82. For daydream frequency, question “Whenever I have time on my hands, I daydream “was measured using a 12-item subscale of
Content of daydream was assessed by the scales and subscales of the Short Imaginal Processes Inventory. Hostile daydreaming, (“I find myself imagining way of getting even with those I dislike”) was assessed with a 3-item index derived from the Guilty-Dysphonic Daydreaming factor. Concerning night dreams, two items were included, (“When I dream, I dream in color” and “My night dreams are extremely vivid.”) Fantasizing about fictional characters really get involved with the feelings of the characters in a novel’ was assessed with the 7-item Fantasy Scale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (alpha=.80).Shyness was assessed using a 20-item version of the Check and Buss Shyness Scale, which measures somatic (“I feel tense when I’m with people I don’t know well”), cognitive,( “I feel painfully self-conscious when I’m around strangers”), behavioral, (“I am socially somewhat awkward”) components of shyness. The alpha coefficient for this scale was .94. Karen Horney (1945) identified the three core interpersonal styles of moving toward,