A Self-Assessment Questionnaire to Measure Dreamer Personality Traits

Abstract

In 1996, Drs. Dana Scott Spears and Ron L. Braund wrote a book entitled, Strong Willed Child or Dreamer? In it, they described a particular personality type in children that is often misunderstood and mistaken for strong-willed behavior or attention deficit disorder. Because having a clearer understanding of the Dreamer personality type can help educators and parents to better facilitate Dreamer children, it is important to identify children who possess these personality traits. Therefore, a Dreamer Identification Instrument was developed. The instrument used was a self-assessment questionnaire in which the respondents were a group of fourth grade students. Af!:er the instrument was shown to possess face validity, it was statistically analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results presented the standard deviations and mean scores of the responses to be fairly consistent, but the correlation coefficients and significance levels indicated that the instrument would not be considered to be statistically reliable.