Autobiographical memory for stressful events: the role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder.
| dc.contributor.author | Rubin, David C | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dennis, Michelle F | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beckham, Jean C | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | United States | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-12T14:48:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | To provide the three-way comparisons needed to test existing theories, we compared (1) most-stressful memories to other memories and (2) involuntary to voluntary memories (3) in 75 community dwelling adults with and 42 without a current diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Each rated their three most-stressful, three most-positive, seven most-important and 15 word-cued autobiographical memories, and completed tests of personality and mood. Involuntary memories were then recorded and rated as they occurred for 2 weeks. Standard mechanisms of cognition and affect applied to extreme events accounted for the properties of stressful memories. Involuntary memories had greater emotional intensity than voluntary memories, but were not more frequently related to traumatic events. The emotional intensity, rehearsal, and centrality to the life story of both voluntary and involuntary memories, rather than incoherence of voluntary traumatic memories and enhanced availability of involuntary traumatic memories, were the properties of autobiographical memories associated with PTSD. | |
| dc.identifier | ||
| dc.identifier | S1053-8100(11)00086-9 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1090-2376 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | ||
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Conscious Cogn | |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.015 | |
| dc.subject | Case-Control Studies | |
| dc.subject | Cues | |
| dc.subject | Female | |
| dc.subject | Humans | |
| dc.subject | Life Change Events | |
| dc.subject | Male | |
| dc.subject | Memory, Episodic | |
| dc.subject | Middle Aged | |
| dc.subject | Models, Psychological | |
| dc.subject | Personality Inventory | |
| dc.subject | Psychological Tests | |
| dc.subject | Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic | |
| dc.subject | Surveys and Questionnaires | |
| dc.title | Autobiographical memory for stressful events: the role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder. | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| duke.contributor.orcid | Beckham, Jean C|0000-0001-8746-8949 | |
| pubs.author-url | ||
| pubs.begin-page | 840 | |
| pubs.end-page | 856 | |
| pubs.issue | 3 | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Clinical Science Departments | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke Institute for Brain Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Institutes and Provost's Academic Units | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Psychology and Neuroscience | |
| pubs.organisational-group | School of Medicine | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | University Institutes and Centers | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | |
| pubs.volume | 20 |
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