کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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902563 | 916172 | 2006 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Several authors have argued that survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) who report to have repressed their traumatic memories are more skilled in forgetting emotional stimuli than survivors who have always remembered the abuse. The current experiment employed a list-wise directed forgetting task to investigate whether women reporting repressed (n=16n=16) or recovered (n=23n=23) memories of CSA are better at forgetting disturbing material, relative to women reporting having always remembered their abuse (n=55n=55) or reporting no history of abuse (n=20n=20). We found no support for the hypothesis that women reporting repressed or recovered memories of CSA are especially versed in inhibiting retrieval of trauma-related words. Additional analyses revealed that participants characterized by a repressive coping style did not display a superior retrieval inhibition mechanism for negative material.
Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy - Volume 44, Issue 8, August 2006, Pages 1129–1136