Associations of Maladaptive Psychological Processes and Noctcaelador in a University Student Sample: A Follow-Up Study

Previous research among university students found that noctcaelador, psychological attachment to the night sky, was significantly related to higher levels of hypomania and lower levels of depressiveness and defensiveness. However, those findings involved a clinical measure of psychological dysfunction. The current study aimed to replicate those results utilizing a measure designed for nonclinical samples and controlling possible influences of openness to experience. A sample of 135 (71.9% female) undergraduate students completed brief measures of noctcaelador, maladaptive psychological processes, and openness to experience. Replicating previous findings, while noctcaelador was unrelated to most indices of maladaptive processes, it was significantly positively related to hypomanic processes after controlling openness to experience and gender. Additionally, noctcaelador was significantly related to scales measuring nonordinary perceptual experiences and valuing emotional expressivity after controlling gender and openness. Previous findings of relationships with depressive and defensive responding were not replicated. The results were interpreted in the context of a self-structural model of noctcaelador and previous research. Additional investigation is needed to extend these findings and understand possible mechanisms and contexts for the results.