Belcher Jessica, Kangas Maria
a Department of Psychology , Macquarie University , Sydney , NSW , Australia.
Cogn Emot. 2014;28(1):163-71. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2013.807776. Epub 2013 Jun 21.
Models of autobiographical memory suggest a close association between memories, future imagination and setting specific personal goals. However this association has yet to be tested with depressed individuals. The aim of this study was to examine whether the specificity of remembering past and imagining future personal events is associated with the specificity of approach and avoidance goals in depressed individuals. Two samples comprising adults who met criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD; N=30) and adults who had no prior history or current depression (N=30) completed autobiographical memory and future event tests, and a personal goal task. In the depressed sample, the specificity with which participants remembered the past was significantly associated with the specificity with which they generated future goals. The depressed sample also elicited fewer specific approach and avoidance goals compared to the non-depressed sample. These findings suggest that an overgeneral memory deficit extends to impairments in goal specificity.
自传体记忆模型表明，记忆、未来想象与设定特定个人目标之间存在密切关联。然而，这种关联尚未在抑郁症患者中得到验证。本研究旨在探讨抑郁个体对过去个人事件的记忆特异性和对未来个人事件的想象特异性是否与趋近和回避目标的特异性相关。两个样本，一组为符合重度抑郁症（MDD；N = 30）标准的成年人，另一组为无抑郁症病史或当前无抑郁症状的成年人（N = 30），他们完成了自传体记忆和未来事件测试以及一项个人目标任务。在抑郁样本中，参与者对过去的记忆特异性与他们生成未来目标的特异性显著相关。与非抑郁样本相比，抑郁样本中产生的趋近和回避目标也较少。这些发现表明，过度概括性记忆缺陷会延伸至目标特异性受损。
