Date on Honors Thesis

5-2024

Major

Psychology & Japanese Translation/Interpretation

Examining Committee Member

Dr. Patrick Cushen, Advisor

Examining Committee Member

Dr. Jana Hackathorn, Committee Member

Examining Committee Member

Dr. Michael Bordieri, Committee Member

Abstract/Description

Previous research has indicated that maladaptive daydreaming (MD), a proposed psychological disorder in which people are compulsively immersed in complex daydreamed plots accompanied by intense emotional involvement and stereotypical movements (Soffer-Dudek & Theodor-Katz, 2022), may be comorbid with many disorders such as ADHD (Somer, Soffer-Dudek, & Ross, 2017). Research has also shown that MD is related to the concept of absorption in which a person’s attention is fully engaged in an outside object (Abu-Rayya, Somer, & Meari-Amir, 2019; Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974). This study examined whether MD was correlated with story world absorption, working memory span, and memory for a previously read fictional story (Kuijpers, Hakemulder, Tan, & Doicaru, 2014). It was hypothesized that MD would be positively correlated with story world absorption, negatively correlated with working memory span, and related to story memory. The results indicated that MD was negatively correlated with working memory, only marginally correlated with absorption, and not significantly correlated with story memory.

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