Direct accessibility for overgeneral memory predicts a worse course of depression: re-analysis of the online computerised memory specificity training for major depression study

Cognitive factors as mediators of the relationship between childhood trauma and depression symptoms: the mediating roles of cognitive overgeneralisation, rumination, and social problem-solving

“…Klar et al, 1997 ; Raes et al, 2023 ; van den Heuvel et al, 2012 ). Overgeneral autobiographical memory (OGM) is strongly associated with depression (Matsumoto & Hallford, 2023 ; Weiss-Cowie et al, 2023 ) and plays a significant role in its onset and maintenance (Fernández-Pérez et al, 2023 ; Matsumoto et al, 2023 ). OGM retrieval refers to the tendency to recall more general autobiographic memories instead of specific autobiographic memories (Gandolphe et al, 2013 ).…”