Van Vreeswijk Michiel F, De Wilde Erik Jan
GGZ Delfland, Psychiatric Hospital, 2600 AJ Delft, The Netherlands.
Behav Res Ther. 2004 Jun;42(6):731-43. doi: 10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00194-3.
Reviewing the literature on autobiographical memory overgenerality, as measured by a cueing task like the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT), gives a diffuse view of the moderating role of depression. This meta-analysis is an attempt to investigate the role of depression in the specificity of autobiographical memory, while accounting for the role of patient and task variables as possible moderators. Meta-analytic techniques are used to synthesize data from 14 studies on the recall of specific autobiographical memories in psychiatric and non-psychiatric samples. The results confirm the relationship between overgenerality and depression. The psychiatric patients are less specific than their non-clinical controls. It is not possible to establish that this result is solely due to a (co-morbid) diagnosis of depression. Self-reported depressed mood is also related to an impairment of autobiographical memory specificity. The way of presenting cues, audio taping responses and the maximum available amount of time to respond, are moderators of AMT performance.
回顾通过诸如自传体记忆测试（AMT）这样的线索任务来衡量的关于自传体记忆过度概括性的文献，会对抑郁的调节作用给出一种模糊的看法。这项荟萃分析旨在研究抑郁在自传体记忆特异性中的作用，同时考虑患者和任务变量作为可能调节因素的作用。荟萃分析技术用于综合来自14项关于精神病学和非精神病学样本中特定自传体记忆回忆的研究数据。结果证实了过度概括性与抑郁之间的关系。精神病患者比非临床对照者的记忆更缺乏特异性。无法确定这一结果仅仅是由于（共病的）抑郁症诊断所致。自我报告的抑郁情绪也与自传体记忆特异性受损有关。呈现线索的方式、对回答进行录音以及最大可用回答时间，都是AMT表现的调节因素。
