Psychometric properties of the written version of the autobiographical memory test in a japanese community sample

Takano, Keisuke; Mori, Masaki; Nishiguchi, Yuki; Moriya, Junji; Raes, Filip

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.12.019

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“…Although we cannot completely exclude the possibility that the attention and/or working memory function varies across negative and positive materials, this seems quite unlikely given that AMS is not influenced by valence differences of the cue words (Griffith, Kleim, Sumner, & Ehlers, 2012;Griffith et al, 2009;Heron et al, 2012;Takano et al, 2017; for a review, see Griffith, Sumner, Raes, Barnhofer, Debeer, & Hermans, 2012). Taken together, our results indeed show that AMS is associated with inhibition of activation for cue-unassociated distracters, but it is still unclear whether AMS relies on selective activation for specific representations of individual event memories, and whether the inhibition is influenced by valence effect.…”

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“…For the control condition, participants were told that they would have to complete two extra assessments, two weeks and five weeks after the completion of Study 1. Being low in AMS was the sole inclusion criterion used in Study 2, which was determined from the average score of young Japanese adults in a previous AMT study (Takano, Mori, Nishiguchi, Moriya, & Raes, 2017).…”

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Lost in distractors: Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity and dispersed activation spreading over distractors in working memory

Takano

Moriya

Raes

2017

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Studies on autobiographical memory retrieval highlight the prominence of rapid and direct access to a specific event memory. Because it has been believed that autobiographical memory retrieval mostly relies on an effortful generative process, there is little empirical evidence on the early stage of information processing that contributes to autobiographical memory specificity (AMS). Therefore, we investigated the associations between AMS and automatic activation of information stimulated by rapid presentation of emotional words. Study 1 involved a visual search task to assess activation of various distractors in working memory. Participants with reduced AMS showed a tendency to activate distractors that were not semantically associated with preceding cues. In Study 2, we manipulated the levels of AMS by using a computerized version of Memory Specificity Training (c-MeST) to observe the changes in the activation of distractors. Results showed that increases in AMS were associated with decreases in activation of cue-unassociated distractors. These findings suggest that reduced AMS can be characterized by dispersed activation spreading over semantically unassociated distractors in automatic information selection of working memory. Because we also found an association between depressive symptoms and AMS, the role of automatic information processing in the relation between reduced AMS and depression is discussed.

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Lost in distractors: Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity and dispersed activation spreading over distractors in working memory

Takano

Moriya

Raes

2017

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…Participants were shown five positive and five negative cue words (happy, sad, safe, evil, interested, awkward, successful, emotionally hurt, surprised, and lonely) and given 60 seconds to recall a specific memory for each. Consistent with psychometric investigations in this area (Griffith, Kleim, Sumner, & Ehlers, ; Griffith, Sumner, et al ., ; Takano, Mori, Nishiguchi, Moriya, & Raes, ), verbal responses were transcribed and coded as either specific (unique events that took place within a day more than 7 days ago) or non‐specific (any other response). The number of specific memories was summed for each cue valence.…”

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Differential associations between impaired autobiographical memory recall and future thinking in people with and without schizophrenia

Barry

Hallford

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British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives. The ability to think about future events serves a range of important functions. People with schizophrenia show impairments in future thinking. However, whether these impairments are specific to positive or negative events and to what extent they are associated with impairments in verbal fluency and autobiographical memory remains poorly understood.Methods. People with schizophrenia (n = 93) and people without psychiatric diagnoses (n = 111) were asked to generate future events and retrieve past autobiographical events and they also completed a test of verbal fluency. Participants also completed questionnaire measures of the positive and negative dimensions of schizophrenia and depression symptoms.Results. People with schizophrenia generated significantly fewer positive and negative future events than controls. In a linear regression, the interaction between diagnosis and autobiographical memory retrieval explained a significant amount of variance in the number of future events that participants generated even when accounting for symptoms and verbal fluency. Past and future thinking abilities were correlated in controls but not in people with schizophrenia.Conclusions. People with schizophrenia may not rely on autobiographical content to imagine the future and may rely instead on semantic processes. Interventions that improve past and future thinking amongst people with schizophrenia are warranted. Practitioner pointsCompared to control participants, people with schizophrenia have marked difficulty generating possible, positive and negative, future events.

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“…Individual differences in AMS are typically measured using the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) where participants are asked to recall memories in response to positive and negative cue words (Williams & Broadbent, 1986). Psychometric studies with healthy participants conclude that memory specificity is best quantified as the number or proportion of memories that refer to a single event lasting <24 hr (Griffith et al, 2009(Griffith et al, , 2012Heron et al, 2012;Takano, Mori, Nishiguchi, Moriya, & Raes, 2017). However, patients with schizophrenia have shown particular difficulty recalling specific memories in response to negative cues (e.g., ashamed, guilty) compared to healthy controls (Neumann, Blairy, Lecompte, & Philippot, 2007;Potheegadoo, Cuervo-Lombard, Berna, & Danion, 2012).…”

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Valence‐related impairments in the retrieval of specific autobiographical memories amongst patients with schizophrenia

Barry

Rey²,

Ricarte

2018

British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives People with schizophrenia have difficulty recalling specific autobiographical events from their past. However, the nature of this difficulty (e.g., whether these problems are only for memories that are negative or positive) and the mechanisms associated with it remain poorly understood. Methods The present investigation asked patients with schizophrenia (n = 91) and healthy controls (n = 109) to recall memories related to several positive and negative cue words. Participants also completed self‐report measures of rumination and depressive symptoms and a measure of verbal fluency to assess executive functioning. Participants' memories were coded for specificity (whether or not they referred to a specific event lasting <24 hr) and valence (positive vs. negative). Results Patients recalled fewer specific memories than controls and they showed particular difficulty recalling specific negative memories cued by negative words. For healthy controls, impoverished verbal fluency was associated with recall of fewer specific memories and particularly recall of fewer positive specific memories. These variables were unrelated to specificity amongst patients. Rumination was not associated with specificity in either group. Conclusions These findings are discussed with reference to other mechanisms that might contribute towards reduced specificity in schizophrenia, such as the tendency to avoid negative affect, and the implications of this for interventions for schizophrenia and memory specificity problems. Practitioner points The experience of schizophrenia is associated with problems recalling specific events from one's past. In particular, patients have difficulty recalling specific negative memories from their past. These memory problems are independent of executive functioning difficulties, ruminative tendencies, and also depression symptoms. Interventions for memory problems in schizophrenia must target the difficulty people have in recalling specific negative events.

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Psychometric properties of the written version of the autobiographical memory test in a japanese community sample

Cited by 31 publications

References 49 publications

Lost in distractors: Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity and dispersed activation spreading over distractors in working memory

Lost in distractors: Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity and dispersed activation spreading over distractors in working memory

Differential associations between impaired autobiographical memory recall and future thinking in people with and without schizophrenia

Valence‐related impairments in the retrieval of specific autobiographical memories amongst patients with schizophrenia

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