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Deja vu experiences in healthy Czech adults

LACINOVÁ, Lenka, Radka NEUŽILOVÁ MICHALČÁKOVÁ, Jan ŠIRŮČEK, Stanislav JEŽEK, Jakub CHROMEC et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Deja vu experiences in healthy Czech adults

Authors

LACINOVÁ, Lenka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Radka NEUŽILOVÁ MICHALČÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan ŠIRŮČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Stanislav JEŽEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jakub CHROMEC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zuzana MASOPUSTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Tomáš URBÁNEK (203 Czech Republic) and Milan BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Williams & Wilkins, 2016, 0022-3018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.860

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/16:00090476

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

UT WoS

000388990600008

Keywords in English

Deja vu; attachment; neuroticism; depression; irritability in the limbic system; perceived stress

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 22/5/2017 18:13, Mgr. Jan Širůček, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The study examines the prevalence of deja vu in healthy Czech adults and explores its relationships with a number of variables: age, sex, neuroticism, depression, the degree of irritability in the limbic system, perceived stress and finally attachment avoidance and anxiety. The participants were 365 healthy adults ranging from 18 to 70 years recruited in the Czech Republic (mean age=29.05; SD=11.17) who filled out online questionnaires. Deja vu experiences were reported by 324 (88.8%) of them. Persons who experienced deja vu were younger than the persons who had not experienced it. We found that sex, levels of neuroticism, depression, perceived stress, and attachment did not serve as predictors of experiences of deja vu phenomena. Finally, those who had reported deja vu experiences reported more limbic system irritability symptoms. We discuss the possibility that deja vu reports together with other studied variables mainly reflect the participants’ willingness to report “extraordinal” experiences.