Psychometric properties of the written version of the autobiographical memory test in a Japanese community sample.
Psychometric properties of the written version of the autobiographical memory test in a Japanese community sample.
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日本社区样本中自传体记忆测试书面版本的心理测量特性。
DOI：
10.1016/j.psychres.2016.12.019
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
11.3
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F.
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作者：
Takano;K.;Mori;M.;Nishiguchi;Y.;Moriya;J.;& Raes;F.
自传体记忆测验（autobiographical memory test，AMT）是一种广泛使用的评估自传体记忆特异性的方法。自传体记忆特异性（AMS）降低或记忆过度概括被认为是抑郁症的认知标志。因此，降低急性心肌梗死是许多精神病理学研究的主题，也是心理干预的一个有希望的目标。尽管在过去几十年中已经收集了大量关于AMS降低的临床相关性的证据，但AMS研究主要在西方人群中进行，很少在亚洲人群中进行。这可能是因为AMT的未知心理测量特性，考虑到文化和语言差异。因此，本研究探讨了心理测量学特性的AMT在日本社区样本（N=1240）。我们的数据重复表明：（a）AMT具有单因子结构;（B）AMS与抑郁症状具有较小但统计学显著的负相关性;（c）AMS显示出随年龄而显著下降的趋势，这影响了老年人AMS与抑郁症状之间关联的程度。这些研究结果表明，AMT具有强大的心理测量特性，在不同的语言和文化背景。
The autobiographical memory test (AMT) is a widely used measure to assess the specificity of autobiographical memories. Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity (AMS) or increased overgeneralization of memories is considered as a cognitive hallmark of depression. Therefore, reduced AMS is the subject of much psychopathological research, and is a promising target for psychological interventions. Although considerable evidence has been gathered on the clinical relevance of reduced AMS over the past decades, studies on AMS have been mainly conducted in Western populations, and few have been conducted in Asian populations. This could be because of the unknown psychometric properties of the AMT given cultural and language differences. Therefore, the present study examined the psychometric properties of the AMT in a Japanese community sample (N=1240). Our data replicated that (a) the AMT has a uni-factorial structure; (b) AMS has a small but statistically significant negative correlation with depressive symptoms; (c) AMS shows a significant declining trend as a function of age, which influences the magnitude of the association between AMS and depressive symptoms in older adults. These findings suggest that the AMT has robust psychometric properties across different languages and cultural backgrounds.