Fantasy-prone personality ( FPP ) is a disposition or personality trait in which a person experiences long and deep involvement in life-long fantasies. This disposition is an attempt, at least in part, to better describe "overactive imagination" or "live in a dream world". A person with this nature (termed a fantasy) may have difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality and may experience hallucinations, as well as his own suggested psychosomatic symptoms. Closely related psychological constructs include daydreaming, absorption and eidetic memory.
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History
American psychologists Sheryl C. Wilson and Theodore X. Barber first identified FPP in 1981, said to apply to about 4% of the population. In addition to identifying these traits, Wilson and Barber report a number of childhood antecedents that may lay the foundation for future fantasy prone, such as, "parents, grandparents, teachers, or friends encouraging fairy tales, reinforcing children... fantasy, and treating childrens dolls and stuffed animals in a way that encourages children to believe they are alive. "They suggest that this trait is almost identical to those who respond dramatically to hypnotic induction, that is," high hypnosis. " The first systematic study was conducted in 1980 by psychologists Judith Rhue and Steven Jay Lynn. Subsequent research in the 1990s by Deirdre Barrett at Harvard confirmed most of the characteristics of these fantasy-prone people, but he also identified a set of other highly recognizable subjects who had experienced traumatic childhood and who identified fantasy time primarily with " daydreaming. "
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Characteristic features
Fantasy-prone people are reported to spend most of their time fantasizing, having very strong fantasies, having paranormal experiences, and having intense religious experience. People with FPP reportedly spent more than half their time fantasizing or fantasizing and would often confuse or mix their fantasies with their real memories. They also report experiences outside the body.
Paracosm is a highly detailed and structured fantasy world that is often made by extreme or compulsive fantasies.
Wilson and Barber listed many characteristics in their pioneer studies, which have been clarified and reinforced in subsequent research. These characteristics include some or more of the following experiences:
- a very good hypnotic subject (mostly but not all curious)
- have imaginary friends in childhood
- often fantasize as a child
- has an actual fantasy identity
- experience the imagined sensation as real
- has a clear sensory perception
- receive sexual satisfaction without physical stimulation.
Fantasy interests are measured by "memory inventory and childhood memories" (ICMI) and "creative experience questionnaire (CEQ).
Path of development
Fantasizer has a great exposure to fantasy during childhood. Excessive exposure to this childhood fantasy has at least three important causes:
(1) Parents or caregivers who engage in mental environments or play their imaginative children during childhood. People with fantasy-prone personalities are more likely to have parents, or close family members who join children in believing toys are living things. They also encourage children who believe they have imaginary friends, read fairy tales throughout childhood and revive the things they have read. People who, at a young age, engage in creative fantasy activities such as piano, ballet, and drawing are more likely to get fantasy-prone personalities. Acting is also a way for children to identify as different people and characters that can make children vulnerable to dreams as they grow up. This can cause the person to grow thinking that they have experienced certain things and they can visualize certain events of the training they get while engaging in drama.
People have reported that they believe their stuffed animals and dolls are living creatures and that their parents encourage them to enjoy their fantasies and daydreams. For example, one subject in Barrett's research says that the response of his parents' formula to his demand for expensive toys is, "You can take this (household objects) and with a little imagination, it will look like (expensive gifts)."
(2) Exposure to harassment, physical or sexual, so fantasizing provides a coping mechanism or escape.
(3) Exposure to severe isolation and isolation, such as that fantasizing provides a coping mechanism or escape from boredom.
Concerning the psychoanalytic interpretation, Sigmund Freud has stated that "discontented desires are the driving force behind fantasy, each separate fantasy contains the fulfillment of desire, and does not prove an unsatisfactory reality." This shows childhood abuse and loneliness can cause people to create a fantasy world of happiness to fill the void.
Related construction
Openness to experience is one of five domains used to describe the human personality in the Five Factor Model. Openness involves six aspects, or dimensions, including active imagination (fantasy), aesthetic sensitivity, attention to inner feelings, preferences for variety, and intellectual curiosity. Thus, the fantasy-prone personality correlates with the facet of the fantasy of the wider personality trait of Openness to Experience.
Absorption is a disposition or personality trait in which a person becomes absorbed in his mental image, especially fantasy. The original research on absorption was done by American psychologist Auke Tellegen. Roche reports that prone to fantasy and absorption are highly correlated. Fantasizer becomes absorbed in a clear and realistic mental imagination.
Dissociation is a psychological process that involves a change in personal identity or sense of self. This change may include: the feeling that a person's self or the world is not real (derealisasi and depersonalisasi); loss of memory (amnesia); forgetting someone's identity or assuming a new self (fugue); and fragmentation of identity or self into a separate stream of consciousness (dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder). Dissociation is most often measured by the Dissociative Experience Scale. Several studies have reported that dissociation and fantasy of the chancellor are highly correlated. This suggests the possibility that a separate self is a fantasy, for example, a response to overcome trauma. However, a long review of the evidence concludes that there is strong empirical support for the hypothesis that dissociation is due primarily and directly by exposure to trauma, and that fantasy is of secondary importance.
Health and theoretical implications
False pregnancy (pseudocyesis). A surprising number of women - 60% of women questioned in the Wilson-Barber study - report that they have had a false pregnancy (pseudocyesis) at least once. They believe they are pregnant, and they have many symptoms. In addition to amenorrhea, they usually experience at least four of the following: breast changes, stomach enlargement, morning sickness, cravings, and "fetal" movements. Two of the subjects went for an abortion, after which they were told that no fetus was found. All other false pregnancies are stopped quickly when a negative result is received from a pregnancy test.
Malverive daydreaming. A 2011 study reported 90 exaggerated, compulsive or maladaptive fantasies involved in periods of highly structured imaginative imperative experience. They often report difficulties stemming from three factors: the difficulty in controlling their seemingly extraordinary fantasies; worries that fantasies disrupt their personal relationships; and a deep sense of shame and deep effort to keep this "abnormal" behavior hidden from others.
Parapsychology (paranormal experience). The pioneer of Wilson-Barber's study states that fantasy-prone personality is the key to understanding the famous paranormal (parapsychological) experiences, such as extrasensory perception (ESP).
See also
- Suggestibility
References
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