ICMDR team
Oct 9, 20201 min
A powerful paper by our Italian colleagues:
Erika Ferrante, Alessia Marino, Fanny Guglielmucci, & Adriano Schimmenti observed the role of emotional trauma, shame, and dissociation in MD. They recruited a group of 162 self-diagnosed maladaptive daydreamers in an online MD group. Participants filled out a survey, including measures of MD, dissociation, traumatic experiences and shame. A multiple mediation model showed that dissociation and shame fully mediated the relationship between emotional trauma and MD severity in the sample. These findings suggest that people suffering from MD may benefit from clinical interventions that address their tendencies to absorb themselves into daydreaming to cope with impairing feelings of shame. To read more click anywhere on the text.