Department of NEUROFARBA - Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Department of Educational Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Scand J Psychol. 2020 Oct;61(5):599-606. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12639. Epub 2020 Apr 4.
A new instrument has been developed that allows a comprehensive assessment of the relevant dimensions of the phenomenology of autobiographical memories (Assessment of the Phenomenology of Autobiographical Memory, APAM), and their association with visual object and spatial imagery has been examined. An initial version of APAM consisting of 30 items (the first 28 measured on a seven-point Likert-type scale) was developed and administered to a sample of 138 undergraduates. To test whether each item consistently measured the same dimension across different memories, all questions were rated for 12 cues. Results showed that 25 Likert-type items possessed adequate levels of internal consistency and unidimensionality across cues. We also found that higher levels of visual object imagery were associated with more sensory details and recollective qualities of memory, and with stronger experience of sensory and emotional reliving. The theoretical and practical usefulness of APAM as well as the relevance of visual object imagery in the phenomenology of autobiographical memory are discussed.
一种新的工具已经被开发出来，可以全面评估自传体记忆现象学的相关维度（自传体记忆现象学评估，APAM），并研究了它们与视觉物体和空间意象的关联。APAM 的初始版本由 30 个项目组成（前 28 个项目在七点李克特量表上进行测量），并对 138 名本科生进行了测试。为了测试每个项目是否在不同的记忆中都能一致地测量相同的维度，所有问题都根据 12 个线索进行了评分。结果表明，25 个李克特量表项目在各个线索之间具有足够的内部一致性和单维性。我们还发现，更高水平的视觉物体意象与记忆的更多感官细节和反思性特征以及更强烈的感官和情感再体验有关。讨论了 APAM 的理论和实际用途以及视觉物体意象在自传体记忆现象学中的相关性。
