Citation

Kuyken W, Brewin CR. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1995; 104(4): 585-591.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8530760

Abstract

The authors investigated the memory functioning of depressed women patients with and without a reported history of child physical or sexual abuse using J. M. G. Williams and K. Broadbent's (1986) Autobiographical Memory Test. Whereas latency to recall autobiographical memories was not related to reports of abuse, patients who reported childhood sexual abuse produced more overgeneral memories to positive and negative cues. In addition, patients reporting high levels of avoidance of spontaneous memories of childhood physical or sexual abuse in the past week retrieved more overgeneral memories to positive and negative cues.

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