Reduced goal specificity is associated with reduced memory specificity in depressed adults
Reduced goal specificity is associated with reduced memory specificity in depressed adults
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DOI：
10.1080/02699931.2013.807776
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发表时间：
2014-01-02
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Kangas, Maria
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作者：
Belcher, Jessica;Kangas, Maria
自传体记忆的模型表明，记忆、未来想象力和设定特定的个人目标之间存在密切联系。然而，这种联系还有待于在抑郁症患者身上进行测试。本研究的目的是探讨抑郁个体记忆过去和想象未来个人事件的特异性是否与接近和回避目标的特异性相关。两个样本包括成年人谁符合标准的重度抑郁症（MDD; N=30）和成年人谁没有既往病史或当前抑郁症（N=30）完成自传体记忆和未来事件的测试，和个人目标任务。在抑郁的样本中，参与者回忆过去的特异性与他们产生未来目标的特异性显著相关。抑郁的样本也引起了更少的具体的方法和回避目标相比，非抑郁的样本。这些发现表明，过度概括的记忆缺陷延伸到目标特异性的损伤。
Models of autobiographical memory suggest a close association between memories, future imagination and setting specific personal goals. However this association has yet to be tested with depressed individuals. The aim of this study was to examine whether the specificity of remembering past and imagining future personal events is associated with the specificity of approach and avoidance goals in depressed individuals. Two samples comprising adults who met criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD; N=30) and adults who had no prior history or current depression (N=30) completed autobiographical memory and future event tests, and a personal goal task. In the depressed sample, the specificity with which participants remembered the past was significantly associated with the specificity with which they generated future goals. The depressed sample also elicited fewer specific approach and avoidance goals compared to the non-depressed sample. These findings suggest that an overgeneral memory deficit extends to impairments in goal specificity.