Development of a Japanese version of the Autobiographical Recollection Test: convergent validity with self-reported scales and memory details

The Subjective Experience of Autobiographical Remembering: Conceptual and Methodological Advances and Challenges

“…The Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART, Berntsen et al 2019) is a general measure of the subjective experience individuals have of their memories that operationalizes seven of the dimensions assessed by the instruments mentioned above. Interestingly, while the correlations between the different phenomenological dimensions reported by Rubin (2021) ranged from null to .91, thus implying that at least some dimensions provide independent information, those reported by Berntsen et al (2019) and by Matsumoto et al (2022b) in the Japanese adaptation study of the ART were uniformly very strong (r ≥ .60) to the point that a single-factor model seemed a more parsimonious measurement model for the ART items. This single score provides a general measure of how much respondents think they remember their past well and focuses on the recollective experience of ABMs without distinguishing between dimensions.…”