Exploring Autobiographical Memory Specificity in PTSD

描述（由申请人提供）：研究表明患有创伤后应激障碍的人，就像那些患有重度抑郁症的人一样，很难有意识地检索特定的自传体记忆。在临床样本中，过度一般化与较差的结果、解决问题的能力下降、想象特定未来事件的能力下降有关，并可能在PTSD症状的维持中起作用。影响控制策略，如解离、反刍和回避与过度记忆有关。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检索的认知资源。这个概念已经被研究人员讨论过，但还没有被系统地研究过。因此，本系列的前两项研究旨在探讨情绪调节，特别是情绪抑制对自传体记忆的影响。研究1和研究2专门探讨了情绪压抑后总体记忆增加的假设。研究3探讨了过度记忆对创伤后应激障碍的影响，特别是研究了对记忆扭曲的易感性增加，这是一个关键的研究领域。对一般记忆的研究可能有助于开发更有效的干预措施，并有助于我们理解PTSD患者的自传式记忆过程。

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.