Exploring Autobiographical Memory Specificity in PTSD

描述（由申请人提供）：研究表明，PTSD患者，如重度抑郁症患者，很难有意识地检索特定的自传体记忆。过度概括与临床样本中较差的结果，减少的解决问题的技能，以及想象特定未来事件的能力下降有关，并可能在PTSD症状的维持中发挥作用。情感控制策略，如分离、反刍和回避，与过度一般记忆有关。根据记忆特异性的资源分配模型，参与这些调节策略会减少可用于特定提取的认知资源。这一概念已经被研究人员讨论过，但尚未得到系统的研究。因此，前两项研究的目的是探讨情绪调节，特别是情绪抑制，对自传体记忆的影响。研究1和2专门探讨了情绪抑制后过度记忆增加的假设。研究3探讨了创伤后应激障碍中过度记忆的影响，特别是研究了记忆扭曲的易感性增加，这是一个关键的研究领域。研究一般记忆可能有助于开发更有效的干预措施，并有助于我们理解PTSD患者的自传体记忆过程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research suggests that individuals with PTSD, like those with major depression, have difficulty intentionally retrieving specific autobiographical memories. Over generality is associated with poorer outcome, diminished problem-solving skills, and decreased ability to imagine specific future events in clinical samples, and may play a role in the maintenance of PTSD symptoms. Affect control strategies such as dissociation, rumination, and avoidance have been associated with over general memory. According to a resource allocation model of memory specificity, engaging in these regulation strategies diminishes cognitive resources available for specific retrieval. This notion has been discussed by researchers but has not yet been systematically investigated. Accordingly, the aim of the first two studies in the proposed series is to explore the impact emotion regulation, in particular emotional suppression, on autobiographical memory. Studies 1 and 2 specifically explore the hypothesis that over general memory increases following emotional suppression. Study 3 explores the implications of over general memory in PTSD, specifically examining increased susceptibility to memory distortion, a crucial area of inquiry. Investigating over general memory may contribute to developing more effective interventions and to our understanding of autobiographical memory processes in individuals with PTSD.