Citation

McNally RJ, Clancy SA, Schacter DL, Pitman RK. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 2000; 68(6): 1033-1037.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. rjm@wjh.harvard.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11142537

Abstract

Women reporting either repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse or no abuse history completed questionnaires tapping personality traits, absorption (fantasy proneness), dissociation, depression, and posttraumatic stress. Planned contrasts indicated that recovered memory participants scored higher on absorption and dissociation than did those reporting either continuous memories or no abuse history; repressed memory participants scored nonsignificantly higher than did recovered memory participants. On measures of distress, continuous memory participants were indistinguishable from nonabused participants, repressed memory participants scored highest, and recovered memory participants scored midway between continuous and repressed memory participants.

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