Autobiographical memories for negative and positive events in war contexts
The aim of the present study was to examine the phenomenological qualities of self-reported negative andpositive memories. The study was conducted in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and a total of 134 autobiographi-cal memories about negative and positive events were analyzed using a version of the Pheno...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/34998 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34998 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 616.89-07 616.89-072.87 159.95 Traumatic memory Emotion Eyewitness testimony War Resilience Autobiographical memory. Memoria traumática Emoción Testimonio ocular Guerra Psicología clínica y psicodiagnóstico Psicología cognitiva Psicología legal Psicología aplicada Psicología transcultural 6101 Patología 6104.01 Procesos Cognitivos |
| Sumario: | The aim of the present study was to examine the phenomenological qualities of self-reported negative andpositive memories. The study was conducted in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and a total of 134 autobiographi-cal memories about negative and positive events were analyzed using a version of the PhenomenologicalQuestionnaire for Autobiographical Memory (Manzanero & López, 2007). Participants were universitystudents, 80 percent were women and 20 percent were men. Results showed that negative memories aremore confused, more complex, and decay more over time than positive ones. In contrast, no differenceswere found between positive and negative memories on sensory information, spatial location, vividness,definition, accessibility, fragmentation, recall perspective, doubts about the accuracy of the memory, andhow much participants recovered and talked about the event. High Dimensional Visualization (HDV)graph revealed that there were individual differences between negative and positive memories but noconsistent differences across participants. |
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