Increasing evidence supports the clinical view that alexithymia is associated with disturbed dreaming. However, a consistent, replicable pattern of relationships between alexithymia and different dreaming components has not yet been identified. Groups of sleep-disordered outpatients (N 580; 46.0 13.2 years) and nonclinical controls (N 145; 22.9 4.2 years) were administered the Toronto Alexithym...

Institutional anomie theory (IAT) attributes the relatively high levels of violent crime in United States to a social structure characterized by institutional imbalance towards economic dominance and cultural ethos known as American Dream which emphasizes individual material success. One greatest challenges testing IAT lies how measure these central structural constructs. While extant research ...