Duman Çağla, Tekcan Ali I
Department of Psychology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Memory. 2022 Aug;30(7):845-856. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2022.2049607. Epub 2022 Mar 14.
Dissociation is one of the phenomena that is closely linked to memory processes, specifically to autobiographical memory. Although a considerable amount of research investigated the relationship between dissociation and basic memory processes, how dissociation as a non-pathological personality trait relates to the characteristics of autobiographical memory is still largely unclear. Here, we investigated the relationship between dissociative tendency and the affect, phenomenology, and centrality of emotional autobiographical memories by asking participants low and high on dissociation to recall their happiest and saddest memories. Results indicated that dissociation is characterised by a negative self-concept and leads to increased accessibility and centrality of the saddest memories to identity and life story and to decreased vividness and clarity of time of the happiest memories. Findings also showed that dissociation leads to perceiving these emotionally salient memories as psychologically more distant yet feeling more positive about them over time, supporting the view of dissociation as the result of an ineffective emotional regulation system. The study provides empirical evidence that dissociation relates to the recollective experience of valenced autobiographical memories in different ways.
分离是与记忆过程密切相关的现象之一，特别是与自传体记忆相关。尽管大量研究探讨了分离与基本记忆过程之间的关系，但作为一种非病理性人格特质的分离如何与自传体记忆的特征相关，在很大程度上仍不清楚。在此，我们通过要求分离程度低和高的参与者回忆他们最快乐和最悲伤的记忆，研究了分离倾向与情感自传体记忆的情感、现象学和核心性之间的关系。结果表明，分离的特征是消极的自我概念，会导致最悲伤的记忆对身份认同和人生故事的可及性和核心性增加，以及最快乐记忆的生动性和时间清晰度降低。研究结果还表明，分离会导致将这些情感突出的记忆在心理上感知为更遥远，但随着时间的推移对它们感觉更积极，这支持了将分离视为无效情绪调节系统结果的观点。该研究提供了实证证据，表明分离以不同方式与有情感色彩的自传体记忆的回忆体验相关。
