Age differences in rumination and autobiographical retrieval

Ricarte, Jorge Javier; Ros, Laura; Serrano, Juan Pedro; Martínez-Lorca, Manuela; Postigo, José Miguel Latorre

doi:10.1080/13607863.2015.1060944

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“…Participants were given 60 s to recall a specific memory for each cue (Debeer, Hermans, & Raes, ). Verbal responses were transcribed, and memories were scored as specific (unique events that took place within a single day and were more than 7 days old) or non‐specific and whether they were positive or negative in valence (Brittlebank, Scott, Williams, & Ferrier, ; Ricarte, Ros, Serrano, Martínez‐Lorca, & Latorre, ; Ricarte et al ., ). Specificity was operationalized as the proportion of specific memories recalled across all cues, and for memories of each valence for each cue type, relative to the total number of responses given.…”

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Valence‐related impairments in the retrieval of specific autobiographical memories amongst patients with schizophrenia

Barry

Rey²,

Ricarte

2018

British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives People with schizophrenia have difficulty recalling specific autobiographical events from their past. However, the nature of this difficulty (e.g., whether these problems are only for memories that are negative or positive) and the mechanisms associated with it remain poorly understood. Methods The present investigation asked patients with schizophrenia (n = 91) and healthy controls (n = 109) to recall memories related to several positive and negative cue words. Participants also completed self‐report measures of rumination and depressive symptoms and a measure of verbal fluency to assess executive functioning. Participants' memories were coded for specificity (whether or not they referred to a specific event lasting <24 hr) and valence (positive vs. negative). Results Patients recalled fewer specific memories than controls and they showed particular difficulty recalling specific negative memories cued by negative words. For healthy controls, impoverished verbal fluency was associated with recall of fewer specific memories and particularly recall of fewer positive specific memories. These variables were unrelated to specificity amongst patients. Rumination was not associated with specificity in either group. Conclusions These findings are discussed with reference to other mechanisms that might contribute towards reduced specificity in schizophrenia, such as the tendency to avoid negative affect, and the implications of this for interventions for schizophrenia and memory specificity problems. Practitioner points The experience of schizophrenia is associated with problems recalling specific events from one's past. In particular, patients have difficulty recalling specific negative memories from their past. These memory problems are independent of executive functioning difficulties, ruminative tendencies, and also depression symptoms. Interventions for memory problems in schizophrenia must target the difficulty people have in recalling specific negative events.

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Valence‐related impairments in the retrieval of specific autobiographical memories amongst patients with schizophrenia

Barry

Rey²,

Ricarte

2018

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…Verbal responses were transcribed, and memories were coded for whether they were specific (e.g., referring to a unique event lasting less than 24 hours) or non-specific (e.g., referring to an event that happened multiple times or over a prolonged period of time, or if they answered with a concept semantically related to the cue) or whether they neglected to respond at all (referred to as an omission ). Each memory was additionally coded for whether they were positive in valence or negative or neutral 16,33–35 . In accordance with psychometric analyses of the AMT 36–38 , we quantified participants’ responses in terms of the proportion of specific responses that were given relative to the total number of cues minus the number of omissions each participant gave.…”

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Retrieval of negative autobiographical memories is associated with hostile attributions in ambiguous situations amongst people with schizophrenia

Barry

Hernández-Viadel

Fernández

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Schizophrenia is characterised by difficulty understanding the thoughts and intentions of other people. Misunderstandings could lead people to attribute hostility to others’ actions. Theories suggest that we use our autobiographical memories to inform our understanding of other people but no study has examined the relation between memory and hostile attributions in schizophrenia. People with ( n = 42) and without ( n = 34) schizophrenia diagnoses completed The Ambiguous Intentions and Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ) to assess their tendency to attribute hostility to other people’s actions and the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) to assess their ability to recall specific positive and negative autobiographical memories. In linear regressions the interaction between diagnostic group and the proportion of specific negative memories participants retrieved explained significant variance in each AIHQ index. Follow-up correlation analyses showed that participants with schizophrenia who retrieved more negative memories also attributed greater hostility to other people’s actions ( r = 0.47) and reported that they would respond with greater aggression ( r = 0.59). These correlations were in the opposite direction for controls. People with schizophrenia may use their memories for negative past events to understand the actions and intentions of other people, leading to attributions of hostility for otherwise benign actions.

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“…Brooding is more akin to the analytical processing mode (why I feel that way), whereas reflection contains more of an evaluative component (how can I solve it). High reliability values have been obtained in Spanish samples (e.g., Ricarte, Ros, Serrano, Martínez‐Lorca & Latorre, ). In the current sample brooding and reflection subscales each showed a Cronbach alpha value of 0.71.…”

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Role of anxiety and brooding in specificity of autobiographical recall

Ricarte

Ros

Postigo

et al. 2016

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Overgeneral schemas and lack of autobiographical memory (AM) specificity about our past experiences can predict mood disturbance. Rumination, functional avoidance and executive processes are the main explanatory variables of such overgenerality. However, in non-clinical samples, rumination predicts overgenerality most consistently after the induction of dysphoric mood. Anxiety also activates rumination. Furthermore, anxiety predicts memory performance and has effects on mood which are independent of the effects of rumination. So, what might be the role of anxiety in autobiographical memory performance? A sample of 210 voluntary participants reported measures of autobiographical memory, anxiety, rumination (brooding and reflection), functional avoidance and executive functions (semantic and phonetic verbal fluency task). Autobiographical performance (specificity) was negatively associated with brooding and age and positively with phonetic verbal fluency but not with functional avoidance and anxiety. However, anxiety and brooding were positively correlated even after controlling for depression scores. Moreover, using structural equation modeling, anxiety showed a significant indirect effect on autobiographical specificity through brooding rumination. These results suggest a possible association of anxiety with autobiographical recall through brooding rumination.

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Age differences in rumination and autobiographical retrieval

Abstract: These results suggest that a different interaction between brooding rumination and the valence of autobiographical memories may be a relevant variable associated with mood differences by age.

Cited by 36 publications

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Valence‐related impairments in the retrieval of specific autobiographical memories amongst patients with schizophrenia

Valence‐related impairments in the retrieval of specific autobiographical memories amongst patients with schizophrenia

Retrieval of negative autobiographical memories is associated with hostile attributions in ambiguous situations amongst people with schizophrenia

Role of anxiety and brooding in specificity of autobiographical recall

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