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- Title
REDUCED SPECIFICITY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY IN ANOREXIA NERVOSA.
- Authors
Ková, Tímea; Szabó, Pál; Pászthy, Bea
- Abstract
During the past years many researchers have focused their attention on autobiographical memory and its deficits in clinical samples suffering of emotional disturbance. The aim of this research was to study autobiographical memory functioning in anorexia nervosa patients, taking into account the duration of illness, the subjective evaluation and the date of the recalled memory, the pleasantness of the recalled memory and the level of depression. Patients with restrictive anorexia nervosa were compared with a group of healthy teenagers using the Autobiographical Memory Test, the Child Depression Inventory and the Eating Disorder Inventory. Anorexic girls recalled more general (extended and categoric) memories than the controls for each type of cue word (positive, negative and neutral), suggesting a general difficulty in the access to emotional memories.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL memory; ANOREXIA nervosa; EMOTIONAL Disturbance Decision Tree; DEPRESSION in children; APPETITE disorders; PSYCHOLOGY; PATIENTS
- Publication
Journal of Cognitive & Behavioral Psychotherapies, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
1584-7101
- Publication type
Article