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Short report: Influence of culture and trauma history on autobiographical memory specificity.
- Source :
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Memory (Hove, England) [Memory] 2012; Vol. 20 (8), pp. 915-22. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Aug 20. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- This study investigated the influence of culture and trauma history on autobiographical memory specificity. Chinese international and British undergraduate university students (N=64) completed the autobiographical memory test, Hopkins symptom checklist-25, twenty statements test, trauma history questionnaire, and impact of events scale-revised. The results indicated that the British group provided significantly more specific memories than the Chinese group. The high trauma exposure group provided significantly fewer specific autobiographical memories than the low trauma exposure group. The interaction was not significant. The findings suggest that even in cultures where specificity is not as evident in autobiographical remembering style, trauma exposure appears to exert similar influence on autobiographical memory specificity.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Asian People ethnology
Asian People psychology
China ethnology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Depression ethnology
Depression psychology
Female
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
United Kingdom epidemiology
White People ethnology
White People psychology
Young Adult
Culture
Memory, Episodic
Mental Recall
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ethnology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1464-0686
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Memory (Hove, England)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22900929
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.710432