Specificity and detail in autobiographical memory: Same or different constructs?
| Autor: | John E. Roberts, Paula Yanes-Lukin, Yoonhee Kyung |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adolescent Memory Episodic Emotions Logistic regression 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Executive Function Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Reactivity (psychology) Association (psychology) Episodic memory General Psychology Depressive Disorder Memory errors Autobiographical memory 05 social sciences Mental Recall Regression Analysis Female Childhood memory Construct (philosophy) Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Memory. 24:272-284 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0686 0965-8211 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2014.1002411 |
| Popis: | Research on autobiographical memory has focused on whether memories are coded as specific (i.e., describe a single event that happened at a particular time and place). Although some theory and research suggests that the amount of detail in autobiographical memories reflects a similar underlying construct as memory specificity, past research has not investigated whether these variables converge. Therefore, the present study compared the proportion of specific memories and the amount of detail embedded in memory responses to cue words. Results demonstrated that memory detail and proportion of specific memories were not correlated with each other and showed different patterns of association with other conceptually relevant variables. When responses to neutral cue words were examined in multiple linear and logistic regression analyses, the proportion of specific memories uniquely predicted less depressive symptoms, low emotional avoidance, lower emotion reactivity, better executive control and lower rumination, whereas the amount of memory detail uniquely predicted the presence of depression diagnosis, as well as greater depressive symptoms, subjective stress, emotion reactivity and rumination. Findings suggest that the ability to retrieve specific memories and the tendency to retrieve detailed personal memories reflect different constructs that have different implications in the development of emotional distress. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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