Object representations, interpersonal behavior, and their relationship to the dream reports of latency-age girls

The application of object representation scales to children's dream material offers a means of looking at the relationship of object representations to the psychological, interpersonal, and psychopathological variables of the child dreamer. The authors reviewed the Object Representation Scale for Dreams (ORSD) and determined that it differentiated a clinically pathological group of children from a nonpathological group when applied to recalled-dream reports. The nonpathological group obtained higher object representational level scores.