TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Role of anxiety and brooding in specificity of autobiographical recall
JO  - Scandinavian journal of psychology
A1  - Ricarte, Jorge Javier
A1  - Ros, Laura
A1  - Latorre, Jose Miguel
A1  - Muñoz, Maria Dolores
A1  - Aguilar, Maria Jose
A1  - Hernandez, Jose Vicente
SP  - 495
EP  - 500
VL  - 57
IS  - 6
N2  - Overgeneral schemas and lack of autobiographical memory (AM) specificity about our past experiences can predict mood disturbance. Rumination, functional avoidance and executive processes are the main explanatory variables of such overgenerality. However, in non-clinical samples, rumination predicts overgenerality most consistently after the induction of dysphoric mood. Anxiety also activates rumination. Furthermore, anxiety predicts memory performance and has effects on mood which are independent of the effects of rumination. So, what might be the role of anxiety in autobiographical memory performance? A sample of 210 voluntary participants reported measures of autobiographical memory, anxiety, rumination (brooding and reflection), functional avoidance and executive functions (semantic and phonetic verbal fluency task). Autobiographical performance (specificity) was negatively associated with brooding and age and positively with phonetic verbal fluency but not with functional avoidance and anxiety. However, anxiety and brooding were positively correlated even after controlling for depression scores. Moreover, using structural equation modeling, anxiety showed a significant indirect effect on autobiographical specificity through brooding rumination. These results suggest a possible association of anxiety with autobiographical recall through brooding rumination.<br><br>© 2016 Scandinavian Psychological Associations and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0036-5564
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12323
ID  - ref1
ER  -